Art, literature & history
"The Bird To Others Flew"
1887
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Pen and ink on cardboard
- Dimensions
- sheet: 19 3/8 x 15 in. (49.2 x 38.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 29.100.927
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edwin Austin Abbey. "The Bird To Others Flew". Edwin Austin Abbey; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
"The Bird To Others Flew" — Edwin Austin Abbey. 1887.
Medium: Pen and ink on cardboard. Dimensions: sheet: 19 3/8 x 15 in. (49.2 x 38.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.