- Title:
- Fennecus verdus (Fennec)
- Additional Title(s):
- Fennec No. 3 Original of illustration in "Travels through Abyssinia"
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 3/8 inches (24.8 × 31.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "scale of three inches"; on verso in pen and brown ink, center left: "This is to be reduced with the size of | an ordinary plate that is [...] a [...] between the Lynx x [...] He should not be more than 1 inches long | per half a little shorter"; lower right: "Fennec No 3"; center left: "[...]"
Collector's Stamp
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8701
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15612
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
James Bruce, Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 , Edinburgh, 1790, p. 128-138 (vol. 5), DT377 B88 1790+ Oversize (YCBA Rare Books) [ORBIS]
Paul Hulton, Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants, From the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1991, p. 52, Precedes p. 55, QK98.183 B2 H85 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]