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Thomas Pennant
1726-1798
Summer Duck
Pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper.
9 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (250 x 308 mm)
Gift of Mr. Henry S. Morgan.
1961.6:9
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Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink in Thomas Pennant's hand, "copied when I was a child / from a Catesby in the possession / of Wynne of Gosscroft".
Provenance:
Jekyll Catesby; Thomas Pennant; David Pennant; Henry S. Morgan.
Notes:
One of fourteen drawings and one colored proof engraving removed from Mark Catesby's "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands...", 2 vol., London, 1731-1743 (PML 45708-45709).
Copy after Mark Catesby, "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...", v. 1, pl. 97.
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