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| John James Audubon c1850 |
John James Audubon (1785 - 1851) is perhaps the most renowned wildlife artist in America, universally acknowledged by both art and natural history museums. He was born in 1875 in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti).
From his father's Pennsylvania estate, Audubon made the first bird-ringing experiments. After failing in various business ventures, he concentrated on drawing and studying birds, which took him from Florida to Labrador. His extraordinary four-volume The Birds of America, first published in London in 1827, was a 12-year enterprise that exponentially increased the knowledge of American ornithological and natural history.
The images featured in this series are mainly hand-coloured etchings and aquatints, with a few original watercolours here and there. (You can click on individual images to enlarge them).
This is part 7 of a 7-part series on Audubon's Birds of America:
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| Scaup Duck |
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| Scolopaceus Courlan |
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| Semi-palmated Sandpiper |
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| Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet |
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| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
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| Sharp-tailed Grous ( Grouse ) |
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| Shoveller Duck |
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| Slender-billed Guillemot |
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| Small Green-Crested Flycatcher |
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| Snow Bunting |
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| Snow Goose |
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| Snowy Heron or White Egret |
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| Snowy Owl |
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| Song Sparrow |
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| Spotted Sandpiper |
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| Summer Red Bird |
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| Swainson's Warbler |
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| Swallow-tailed Hawk |
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| Tengmalm's Owl |
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| Three-Toed Woodpecker |
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| Towhee Bunting chalk, pencil, watercolour and ink on paper 23.8 x 28.3 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Townsend's Sandpiper |
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| Townsend's Warbler, Arctic Blue Bird and Western Blue Bird |
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| Tropic Bird |
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| Trumpeter Swan |
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| Trumpeter Swan |
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| Turkey Buzzard |
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| Violet-green Cormorant and Townsend's Cormorant |
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| Virginia Rail watercolour original |
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| Virginian Partridge |
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| Washington Sea Eagle oil on canvas 116.8 x 84.5 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Western Duck |
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| White and Brown Ibis |
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| White Heron |
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| White-headed Eagle |
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| White-headed Eagle |
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| White-Legged Oyster-Catcher and Slender-Billed Oyster-Catcher |
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| Wild Turkey |
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| Wild Turkey |
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| Yellow Red-poll Warbler |
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| Yellow Shank |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat |
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| Yellow-Crowned Heron |
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