Widow Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens American

Publisher Samuel Robinson American

Lithographer Rosenthal American

1851

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Title: Widow Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Series/Portfolio: The Comic Natural History of the Human Race
Artist: Henry Louis Stephens (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1824–1882 Bayonne, New Jersey)
Publisher: Samuel Robinson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Lithographer: Rosenthal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1851
Medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum
Dimensions: sheet: 11 x 7 1/16 in. (28 x 17.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964
Object Number: 64.629.47(25)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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