{ "core": { "objectID": 33310, "objectNumber": "46.126", "primaryTitle": "The Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle", "objectName": "engraving", "dated": "1827", "classification": "Prints", "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs", "medium": "engraving, etching, and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper", "dimensions": "Image: 35 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (90.2 × 54.6 cm)\r\nSheet (trimmed inside platemark): 37 5/8 × 24 3/4 inches (95.6 × 62.9 cm)\r\nFramed: 45 3/4 × 33 × 1 1/2 inches (116.2 × 83.8 × 3.8 cm)" }, "provenance": { "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb ", "provenance": "1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)", "signed": "", "inscribed": "Inscribed, in plate diagonally, lower left of image: The Bird of Washington, | OR | GREAT AMERICAN SEA EAGLE. | Falco Washingtoniensis.........Male.\r\nInscribed, lower left: Drawn from Nature by John J. Audubon, F.R.S.E. M.W.S.\r\nInscribed, lower right center: Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, Senr.\r\nInscribed, lower right: Engraved by R. Havell Junr.\r\nInscribed, upper left: PLATE 111\r\nInscribed, upper right: No 3.", "markings": "Watermark: J WHATMAN 1830" }, "creators": [ { "displayName": "John James Audubon", "role": "Artist", "nationality": "American", "bio": "American, 1785-1851" }, { "displayName": "John James Audubon", "role": "Publisher", "nationality": "American", "bio": "American, 1785-1851" }, { "displayName": "Robert Havell, Jr.", "role": "Engraver", "nationality": "American", "bio": "American, 1793-1878" }, { "displayName": "Robert Havell, Sr.", "role": "Printer", "nationality": "English", "bio": "English, 1769-1832" } ], "rights": [ { "type": "Public Domain", "copyright": "This work is in the public domain.", "creditLineRepro": "John James Audubon; Robert Havell, Jr., The Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle, 1827, engraving, etching, and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 46.126." } ], "media": { "primary": { "filename": "46.126-d1-2018-01-10.tif", "width": 4039, "height": 6133, "shareURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/r54plpyxyn/jpeg/46.126-d1-2018-01-10.jpeg?h=2000&keep=c&crop=yes&color=cccccc&quality=80&u=u3bnol", "originalURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/r54plpyxyn/original/46.126-d1-2018-01-10.tif?u=u3bnol&download=true" } }, "terms": [ { "name": "hand coloring", "type": "technique" }, { "name": "aquatint", "type": "technique" }, { "name": "aquatint", "type": "work type" }, { "name": "engraving (printing process)", "type": "technique" }, { "name": "etching (printing process)", "type": "technique" }, { "name": "etching (printing process)", "type": "work type" }, { "name": "engraving (incising)", "type": "work type" }, { "name": "paper (fiber product)", "type": "support" }, { "name": "ink", "type": "material" }, { "name": "United States", "type": "creation" }, { "name": "birds", "type": "subject" } ], "source": { "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts", "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/33310" } }