- Creator:
- unknown artist
- Title:
- The Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
- Date:
- Undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower left: "Purple Heron COX DAME [crossed out]; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "Purple Heron ARDEA PURPUREA"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.588
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- science | taxonomy (discipline) | ornithology | purple | heron | animal art | birds
- Currently On View:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2229