Images(3)

Last Passenger Pigeon

Artist/Maker Rudolf Cronau (Germany, 1855 - 1939)

Date1899

MediumWatercolor, gouache and graphite on Paper

Dimensionsimage: 7 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (19.7 × 32.4 cm) frame: 18 1/2 × 23 in. (47 × 58.4 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineAlfred F. King, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Terms

Object numberW1996.033

DescriptionPortrait of pigeon in a circular closeup, left side profile. A sky filled landscape serves as a backdrop, the sky blackened with pigeon. On the rear it is written "The Last Passenger Pigeon, drawing made by Rudolf Cronau in the Zoological Garden of Cincinnati in the year 1899. This last Passenger Pigeon died on September 1, 1914 at 1o'clock in the afternoon. It's stuffed body is now in the U.S. National Museum at Washington DC."

Status

Not on view