R: Diomedea brachyura?, V: " ", 1848
File — Box: 20, Folder: 392
Dates
- Creation: 1848
Physical Description
Full sheet pencil; watercolor
General
Phoebastria albatrus -- Short-tailed Albatross, Albatros à queue courte. Alternate name on piece: Diomedea brachyura (Obverse and reverse of sheet) [Short-tailed albatross] 3 head studies, many notes on color, form, name and source; "Marked diom. brachyura--Buff[on] 963--on the ticket. Sent to the Berlin Museum from Brand[t?], St. Petersburg and was collected by [?]Kittlitz on the western coast of America." Artist's name(s): Gould, John; Richter, Henry Constantine.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository