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drawing; album(?)

Object Type: drawing; album (?)
Museum number: SL,5270.100
Description: Verso: Alewife or Shad (Pomolubus pseudoharengus Wilson), leaf from a volume (now consisting of 113 leaves of drawings), associated with John White Watercolour
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School/style: British; American
Production date: 1585-1593
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Dimensions: Height: 391 millimetres; Width: 264 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See curatorial comment for BM SL-5270.1 for a discussion of the album which contains this series of drawings and SL,5270.97 for a discussion of the series of drawings of fish and reptiles (SL,5270.97 to 113). There is an 18th century copy of this drawing in watercolour, commissioned by Hans Sloane before 1707 in British Library Add MS5267.110 Like salmon and shad, alewife grow in the sea but enter freshwater streams to spawn in ponds. They are eaten fresh or salted.
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (78(100)); Hulton & Quinn 1964 / The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590, with drawings of European and Oriental subjects (88(a)); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (3(117)); Sloan 2007 / A New World. England's first view of America (pp. 232-3)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2007 Mar-Jun, BM, 'A New World:...' 2007/8 Oct-Jan, Raleigh, North Carolina Mus of History, 'A New World:...' 2008 Mar-Jun, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 'A New World:...' 2008 Jul-Oct, Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, 'A New World:...'
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Associated places: Topographic representation of: Virginia (state)
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library; Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane
Acquisition date: 1753
Acquisition notes: See Acq.Hist in BM SL-5270.1. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: SL,5270.100
Conservation: Treatment: 14 Mar 2007; Treatment: 06 Mar 2007

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