Crested Titmouse
Artist
John James Audubon
(American, 1785 - 1851)
Lithographer
John T. Bowen
(American, 1801 - 1856)
Datec. 1839
Mediumlithograph on white wove paper, hand-colored
DimensionsOctavo: 10 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (27.3 x 17.6 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (57.2 × 41.9 × 3.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (57.2 × 41.9 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.1.7.37
ClassificationsPrints
Label TextThis print served as a pattern plate for colorists preparing the octavo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. In his text about this bird Audubon described it hanging to branches by its feet and detaching nuts or acorns. The common name today for this bird is Tufted Titmouse.
ProvenancePurchased September 11, 1957 through (Nada Kramar, Washington, D.C.) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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