Birds in American Art
(above: Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1829, hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper plate: 96.7 x 65.2 cm (38 1/16 x 25 11/16); sheet: 99.7 x 67.2 cm (39 1/4 x 26 7/16). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. Walter B. James, 1945.8.66) See Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America" (9/6/05) The prints on view in the exhibition were selected from the National Gallery of Art's early edition of "The Birds of America". Audubon's double-elephant folio -- a standard term of measurement for the largest sheet of paper produced in the 19th century, approximately 39 1/2 x 261/2 inches -- consists of 1,065 images of birds and represents 449 different species.
Books sampler:
Birds of America, by John James Audubon, was the first comprehensive publication of illustrations of paintings of hundreds of American birds. It was first published in a subscription format starting in 1827 and lasting through 1838. Each section for the subscription covered a limited number of birds. Later, Audubon worked with a publisher to sell a less expensive edition of his illustrations, completed in 1844. It included new material by him, his son and other artists. Source: Wikipedia.
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Birds of America, The Features the art of John James Audubon. 29 minutes (collection of Joslyn Art Museum)
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