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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Yellow Breasted Chat

Thomas Pennant
1726-1798

Yellow Breasted Chat

15 x 9 1/2 inches (383 x 242 mm)
Pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper.
1961.6:10

Gift of Mr. 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. 50.
Associated names
Catesby, Jekyll, former owner.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798, former owner.
Pennant, David, d. 1841, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749. Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 159.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department