Object Details
- Author
- Ridgway, Robert 1850-1929
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Robert Ridgway was an American ornithologist, protégé of second Smithsonian Secretary Spencer F. Baird, and first full time curator of birds at the Smithsonian's United States National Museum. He came to the Smithsonian in 1880 and remained until his death in 1929. Ridgway produced wonderful drawings and paintings of birds.
- Summary
- A color drawing by Robert Ridgway of a robin showing its yellow beak and red breast.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7167, Box 16, Folder:
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1900
- Standard number
- SIA2012-1695
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Drawing
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 11w x 8h; Type of Image: Drawing; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Ornithologists
- Museum curators
- Ornithology
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Birds
- Drawing
- Art and science
- Art
- Scientific illustration
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13519
