Artist/Maker
John James Audubon
1785 – 1851
Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), Study for Havell pl. 62
1824
Place madePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Watercolor, pastel, graphite, gouache, black chalk, and black ink on paper, laid on card
Mat: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Sheet: 26 5/16 × 18 1/2 in. (66.8 × 47 cm)
Sheet: 26 5/16 × 18 1/2 in. (66.8 × 47 cm)
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
1863.17.62
Two other versions of Audubon's passenger pigeons exist- an earlier version made in Louisville, KY on December 11, 1809 now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University; an oil copy of the present picture by Joseph Kidd now in the collection of Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
MarkingsWatermark: JWHATMAN / 1810
InscribedInscribed at lower left in brown ink "No 13. Plate 62. / Published 1829. / Drawn from Nature / Pittsburgh. Pena. / J.J.Audubon"; at lower center: "Passenger Pigeon Male 1. Female 2 / Columba migratoria"; birds numbered lower and upper respectively: "1"; "2"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
DescriptionFemale, above; male, below 
John James Audubon
Date: 1829
1863.17.131
John James Audubon
Date: 1824
1863.17.100
John James Audubon
Date: ca. 1829-1830
1863.17.86
John James Audubon
Date: ca. 1827–1830
1863.17.82
John James Audubon
Date: 1821; 1827
1863.17.37
John James Audubon
Date: 1821
1863.17.40
John James Audubon
Date: 1821; reworked later
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John James Audubon
Date: 1822
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