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Album of Abyssinian birds and mammals / from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Catalog Data

Artist:
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz 1874-1927  Search this
Author:
Cutting, C. Suydam (Charles Suydam) 1889-1972  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Lithographer:
Goes Lithographic Co.  Search this
Issuing body:
Field Museum of Natural History  Search this
Physical description:
4 unnumbered pages, 32 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 31 x 26 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
Ethiopia
Date:
1930
Notes:
Caption title.
Introductory text by Wilfred H. Osgood, dated November 1930.
"Special publication of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A."--First unnumbered page.
Descriptive letterpress on verso of each plate.
Issued in portfolio.
"Through the generosity of Mr. C. Suydam Cutting, Field Museum is priviledged to present in the accompanying porfolio a selected series of reproductions of the last work of ... Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The original paintings, made on the Field Museum--Chicago Daily News Abyssinian Expedition of 1926-27 were purchased by Mr. Cutting, after the artists's untimely death, and presented to the Museum"--First unnumbered page.
On verso of each plate: "Lithographed in the U.S.A. Goes Litho. Co., Chicago."
Topic:
Birds  Search this
Mammals  Search this
Birds in art  Search this
Mammals in art  Search this
Call number:
QL337.E8 F95 1930 quarto
QL337.E8F95 1930
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_431094