Art, literature & history
Hermit Thrush
1820
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk, watercolor, and gouache over graphite
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.82 × 29.53 cm (17 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1985.64.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John James Audubon. Hermit Thrush. John James Audubon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_James_Audubon,_Hermit_Thrush,_1820,_NGA_66467.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hermit Thrush — John James Audubon. 1820.
Medium: black chalk, watercolor, and gouache over graphite.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 43.82 × 29.53 cm (17 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1985.64.69. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.