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Chickadee, Black-capped

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Chickadee, Black-capped
Context: Wright, Mabel Osgood and Coues, Elliott, Citizen Bird, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1897.. Illustrating the children's book Citizen Bird was Louis Agassiz Fuertes first major commission. He produced 108 illustrations for Citizen Bird over a period of eight months in 1896-1897. He was 22 at the time and a senior at Cornell University. Many of the illustrations appearing in this book were later reprinted in Birdcraft, a field guide by Mabel Osgood Wright.
Date: 1897
Location: Laboratory of Ornithology
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 10.5" x 8"
Support: Paper
Type: Gouaches
Title: Black-capped Chickadee
Publication: Citizen Bird