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M. Battersby
active 1850-1875
Album Containing Fifty-Nine Drawings of Exotic Birds
[1850-1875]
Leaves: 13 1/16 x 9 3/4 in (332 x 246 mm); binding: 13 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (340 x 255 mm)
Watercolor and tempera, with gold, over graphite, on paper.
1981.50
Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.
Notes
Watermark: J WHATMAN / 1821 (see Heawood 3457-62).
Both sections have a list of contents and countries of origins.
Both sections have a list of contents and countries of origins.
Inscriptions/Markings
Each drawing inscribed by the artist at lower right, in pen and ink, with name of bird; sometimes repeated at lower left in graphite. First manuscript title page inscribed; "Drawings taken from a collection of stuff'd Birds / of their natural size / by M. [Mary?] Battersby / Dublin 1834. Second manuscript title page inscribed: Drawings from Stuffed Birds, all the size of nature / By M. Battersby 1843".
Associated names
Broadhead, R. M., former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 234-235
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Century Drawings
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