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ArtistAmerican, active 1838–1856
ArtistAmerican, born Santo Domingo, 1785–1851
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Douglas's Squirrel, Plate 48
  • from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Date1844
PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumLithograph in colors with hand-coloring
DimensionsSheet: 27 1/2 × 21 in. (69.9 × 53.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 1995"
Object number95.266
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: On the bottom of the sheet, printed: "Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S.F.L.S. Sciurus Douglass II, Gray Douglass Squirrel Natural Size 1, Male, 2, Female. lith. Printed & Col.d by J.T. Bowen, Phila. 1844." On the top of the sheet: "No. 10 Plate, XLVIII."
Catalogue raisonnéBowen XLVIII

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