Signatures, Inscriptions, and MarkingsMarks: [stamped on canvas on reverse]: Winsor & Newton / 38 Rathbone Place
Inscriptions: [on the back before lining at upper right]: Hudsonius / Win[ter]; [at right center above] Hudsonius / Winter & Summer; [at right center below] Painted with / Oil in Terpentine [sic] Dec. 1846; [on original stretcher] Hudson Bay Lemming / Plate CIX; [on old paper attached to original stretcher] This the property of Lucy / Bakewell Audubon.

ProvenanceLucy Bakewell Audubon, until 1951; with The Old Print Shop, New York, by 1951; with Kennedy Galleries, New York; Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, Sharon, Connecticut, until 1962; Mrs. Darwin Morse, Richmond, Massachusetts, 1962–1963