[The Warren mastodon]
Scope and Contents
Standing skeleton of mastodon in natural environment with another mastodon in the background. On label (originally mounted on verso of painting): This picture was acquired as part of the Warren Collection. While there was no information with it, comparison with the central figure of the Frontipiece in the original (1852) edition of Warren's The Mastodon giganteus of North America proves it to be the probable original of that figure. It is marked B.F. Nutting, pinx. 1846. Painting mounted on brown sheet of heavy paper, 55 x 76 cm.
Dates
- 1846
Creator
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 (Artist, Person)
Biographical / Historical
Nutting was a portrait and landscape painter who also worked as a lithographer with Currier.
The skeleton, commonly known as the Warren mastodon, is in the American Museum of Natural History. It was discovered in Aug. 1845 by Nathaniel Brewster on his farm in Newburgh, N.Y.
Extent
1 Item : painting : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 49 x 70 cm.
Indexed in
Creator
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 (Artist, Person)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library Repository
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York NY 10024 USA
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