John James Audubon
Magpye
John J. Audubon: Works from the Shufeldt Family Trust
John James Audubon
1785 - 1851
Magpye
inscribed La Pie. Buffon Pye, Piot Magpye, Pianet - english (lower center) and No.44. (lower left)
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
12 by 18 ½ inches
(30.5 by 47 cm)
Executed circa 1802.
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Robert W. Shufeldt, 1885 (gift from the above)
Percy W. Shufeldt, 1934 (by descent)
Robert W. Shufeldt IV (by descent)
Helen M. Shufeldt, 2009 (by descent)
By descent to the present owner, 2018
“Audubon Sketches,” Audubon, vol. 1, no. 12, January 1888, n.p.
Robert Wilson Shufeldt, “The Peccary: With Introductory Notes on the Order Ungulata,” Forest and Stream, no. 1, January 26, 1888, pp. 4-6