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Helianthea dichroura, 1881

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 969
Helianthea dichroura
Helianthea dichroura

Dates

  • Creation: 1881

Physical Description

Full sheet pencil; watercolor; chalk-charcoal-pastel

General

Coeligena violifer dichroura -- Violet-throated Starfrontlet. Alternate name on piece: Helianthea dichroura Very finished layout painting; quick outline sketch to indicate where one of the 3 birds was to be relocated--so moved in the published plate;"9 / 1844" (see item 969B); at head of sheet "Plant. Cinchona officinalis, Peruvian bark"; at foot, lengthy note about related species, Helianthea osculans and calligenia, and the ornithologists Jelski and Taczanowski (see text); at head of sheet "9 / 1844." Title in pencil by Sotheran, bookseller. Artist's name(s): Gould, John; Hart, William Matthew.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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