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Bachman's Warbler
Bachman's Warbler
Bachman's Warbler

Bachman's Warbler

Artist (American, 1785 - 1851)
Engraver (American, 1793 - 1878)
Date1833
Mediumetching and aquatint on paper, hand-colored
DimensionsDouble elephant: 38 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches (97.2 x 64.8 cm)
Credit LinePartial Bequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965 and Partial Gift of Nelda C. Stark, 1973
Object number11.1.2.A.86_Bachman's Warbler
ClassificationsPages
DescriptionThis page is bound in Volume I (11.1.2.A).
Label TextAudubon named this warbler after The Rev. John Bachman, who first discovered the bird. They became friends when Audubon visited Charleston, where Bachman was a minister and a naturalist. Bachman would later co-author Audubon’s book on animals. Audubon’s two sons married two of Bachman’s daughters. Maria Martin, Bachman’s sister-in-law, drew the Franklinia tree in the background of this print. She painted plant specimens for a number of Audubon’s prints. She and John Bachman married after the death of his first wife, Maria’s sister. The Bachman’s warbler is possibly extinct today.
ProvenanceArtist; by inheritance to his son John Woodhouse Audubon [1812-1862]; purchased December 7, 1861 by John Taylor Johnston [1]; by inheritance to his son John Herbert Johnston as of 1893; by inheritance to his grandson William W. Appleton [1915-2014]; as of November 26, 1939 (Harry A. Levinson, The Chaucer Head Book Shop, New York) [2]; purchased 1939 by Cornelius D. Ehret, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; purchased April 29, 1954 through (Nada Kramar, Washington, D.C.) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; ½ interest bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation [3]; remaining ½ interest gifted February 1, 1973 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation by Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. See letter and bill of sale from John Woodhouse Audubon to John Taylor Johnston (object number 11.2.105.A-C) | 2. The New York Times Book Review, "Notes on Rare Books," November 26, 1939. | 3. Owned jointly by H.J. Lutcher Stark and Nelda C. Stark until his death at which point his ½ interest was bequeathed to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation.
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