Purple grackle = Quiscalus versicolor / drawn from nature by John J. Audubon engraved by W.H. Lizars Edinr. printed & coloured by R. Havell Senr. (3.29180)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 39 x 30 cm.
The Stylish House: 1906 to 1931 (3.34276)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the early 20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Theodore and Elizabeth / and / Kathryn Jane / John Edward / and / Scotty
- 1906 to / 1931 [sketch of a piano with a vase of flowers on top of a piano shawl]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds, including the neighboring house and yard, with the following plants and trees labeled:]
- Golden / Bantam corn
- New Zealand / spinach
- hen and chickens / yellow alyssum / phlox subulata
- pinks
- Lombary / poplars
- regal lilies / delphiniums / madonna lilies / rosy morn perunias
- white birch
- Spiraea / Van Houttei
- mountain ash
- [sketches of a vase, a light fixture, and a plant stand to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Ears of corn (3.36336)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A display of ears of corn on a table.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide