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Hans Troschel Woodcuts
Collection — drawer: 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0749
Overview
Hans Troschel, 1899-1979, received his schooling at the Bauhaus School in Germany. Before World War 2, he was a teacher of self-expression in the arts. During the war he was taken captive and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. In 1954 he regained his freedom and returned to Germany where he continued to work and teach. The collection contains six woodcuts of birds and mammals, including a buzzard, osprey, wild geese, doe, a squirrel and a cat. Troschel made the prints in 1960, after his...
Dates:
1960
John R. Quinn Illustrations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0730
Overview
John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department. Quinn spent the month of March in 1968 working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's A guide to The Birds of South America. The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection pluslive birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don...
Dates:
1970
Oiseaux dorés ou á Reflets Métalliques copper plates by Jean Baptiste Audebert and Louis Pierre Vieillot
Collection — Folder: 1-12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0069
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 11 copper printing plates and 4 engravings (probably trial or artist proofs). The engraved copper plates were used to print illustrations for Oiseaux dorés ou a Reflets Metalliques, by J.B. Audebert and L.P. Vieillot, Paris: Desray, 1802. Includes two plates from Volume 1, Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars et Promerops and 8 plates from Volume 2, Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Grimpereaux et des Oiseaux de...
Dates:
1800-1802
Earl Lincoln Poole papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0458
Scope and Contents
The Earl Lincoln Poole papers house records created by Poole in the study of ornithology and related disciplines, and his illustrations for Academy collaborations. The collection dates from 1915 to 1972 and contains paintings, illustrations, printing blocks, rough drafts, notes, maps, field notes, correspondence, index cards, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. These materials document Poole's work as an illustrator for Academy ornithologists, his efforts to document the...
Dates:
1915 - 1972
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Art Collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0808
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 487 natural history drawings in watercolor, wash, ink, gauche, and tempera, primarily created between 1834 and 1936. The majority of subjects are birds, but mammals are also included. The collection is made up of 220 drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1874-1927, 71 by John L. (John Livesy) Ridgway (b. 1859), 63 by Robert J. Sim, 29 by W. T. Allan, 27 by Ernest Thomas Seton (1860-1946), 13 by Allan Brooks (1869-1946), 11 by D. Darling, 8 by Earl L. Poole, 5 by...
Dates:
1834-1995; Majority of material found within 1888-circa 1936
William Lloyd Baily Hummingbird Paintings
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0011
Scope and Contents
These four quarto sized volumes contain 58 pages of watercolors, each page measuring 34 x 27 cm., with varying image sizes. Each volume includes a dated title page and a contents page, handwritten in black ink, and each plate is followed by a hand written description. The watercolors are notable for the portrayal of the iridescence on the plumage of the hummingbirds, a technique invented by Baily, accomplished by the use of gold and silver leaf. A relative, John Collins, assisted Baily in...
Dates:
1855, 1857, 1858
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