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Six gulls, three on rocks, one on the ground, one in the water, one takes flight
Gulls
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Gulls

Artist Theodore Jasper (American, born Prussia, 1814 - 1897)
Artist Jacob Henry Studer (American, 1840 - 1904)
Date1895
MediumChromolithograph
Dimensions14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. Mike Solar
Object number2012.56.10
Collections
Visual Description1. Xena Sabinei (Fork-tailed gull), 2. Larus argentatus, var. occidentalis (Western gull, Common gull, Herring gull), 3. Larus marinus (Saddle-back, Great black backed gull, Cobb), 4. Anser hyperboreus (Snow goose, White Brandt), and 5. Mergellus albellus (Smew, White nun, White-headed or Drawf goosander). Multiple black and white gulls standing on rocks and land, floating in the water, and flying overhead. Plate 74 from "The Birds of North America".
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Great Black-Backed Gull
Edward Lear
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Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
John Gould
1832-1837
Two Larus leucopterus (White-Winged Silvery Gull) seagull birds, one with light blue wings and white body and webbed feet, sitting on the shore, the other with black and white speckled body and off-white webbed feet, standing on a rock.
White Winged Silvery Gull
John James Audubon
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Two gulls (one white and one speckled brown in the water)
Glaucous Gull
John Gould
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Sixteen birds divided into two groups, one in the upper and the other in the lower half of the print, some in water, some on land
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Two Anser Albifrons (White-Fronted Goose) birds with white, gray-brown, and black bodies and yellow feet.
White-Fronted Goose
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2 Nigella Nana
2 Nigella Nana
Jane Webb Loudon
1840
Botrychium Lunaria
Botrychium Lunaria
Henry Riley Bradbury
1855-1857
Many different types and colors of gastropod seashells.
LXXIV
Albert Seba
1734-1755
ovoid pot with flared neck with lid; lid is concave with small handle in center, pot has herring bone pattern and three rings incised on shoulder; red body and slipped and burnished surface.
Lidded pot
Yoruba Artist
1973
A framed painting of a shadowed stone walkway with two arches opening to a sunny garden. Two nuns in black habits stand near the right arch. The shaded interior features a stone floor, wooden staircase, and a single chair.
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undated
Four Calliphlox Amethystina (The Amethyst) hummingbirds; the female has a green back and head, white throat and chest, and light brown belly; a young male has a green back and belly, white chest, and white and green striped throat; two adult males have green backs and bellies, white chests, and blue and light red throats. Three of the birds stand on a plant with green leaves and small white flowers while another bird flies nearby.
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