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unknown artist, The Purple Heron, Undated
- Title:
The Purple Heron
- Date:
- Undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm), Sheet: 18 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (46.4 × 63.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower left: "Purple Heron COX DAME [crossed out]; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "Purple Heron ARDEA PURPUREA"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.588
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | birds | heron | ornithology | purple | science | taxonomy (discipline)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2229
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