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William Bartram 1739-1823

Watercolours and Drawings

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Plate 58
'Linaria', Hummingbird, 'Stone Crab', and
'Sea shell'
$450.00
No. 58
Toad Flax : Linaria canadensis
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird : Archilochus colubris
Stone Crab : Menippe mercenaria
Sea Shell : Donaz variabilis
175 x 300

Bartram’s artistic development is illustrated when comparing the humming bird in this
drawing with that of one sent to Peter Collinson twenty years earlier, and now in the
collection of Lord Derby at Knowsley Hall.


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