%eadnotat; ]> Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf, 1777-1861. Bird portraits, ca. 1819. Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. ENG Schinz, Heinrich Rudolf, 1777-1861. Bird portraits, ca. 1819. Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Descriptive Summary Collection 50 Archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences

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SCHINZ, HEINRICH RUDOLF, 1777-1861. Bird portraits, ca. 1819. 5 items. Collection 50

Zoologist and physician, once a professor at the University of Zurich, with broad natural history interests, Schinz also was something of an artist. The four small pictures of Swiss birds in watercolor are assigned to him becasue accompanied by a small book, a reproduction in part of Schinz' bird book of 1819.

Gift of H. Saalenback, of Philadelphia, in 1951, who stated that the sketches had been in the possession of his family for nearly 150 years.