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Title: Smew or white nun, mergus albellus. L
Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851, artist
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a male and female smew, one swimming and the other flying above near a rocky shoreline.
"Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F,R,S. F,L,S."--text, bottom left margin. "Chromolithy. by J. Bien, New York 1860."--text, bottom right margin. "Male 1. Female 2."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 99.38 x 67.47 cm (39 1/8 x 26 9/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_SCI_003445
440695
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4884
Language: English
Subject: Birds--Pictorial works
Ducks--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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