Download free image of American Crow from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, etched by William Home Lizars. Original from University of Pittsburg. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. about bird, vintage, art public domain, illustration, and drawing 277376

In 2014, an exhibition of watercolours by the renowned avian artist, John James Audubon, opened in New York. The reviews, from the New York Times to the Guardian, were unambiguously enthusiastic, celebrating the painter as a legendary genius who ‘exceeded the limits of his era’. Fast forward eight years, and a rather different vibe hangs

It's spring time! Trees are blooming, and robins are looking for worms. I thought this would be a great time to introduce my 1st grade students to artist J. J. Audubon. I told them about how he was not only an artist, but also a scientist! As a scientist, he studied birds, and knew exactly what different kinds of birds look like. He could identify birds by how they look. He had to be very good at noticing details. I showed my students his robin picture: And we looked at how he included all…

In the course of Colonel LONG'S expedition to the Rocky Mountains, a single specimen of this large and handsome Pigeon was procured. This individual was afterwards figured in the continuation of...

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Plates drawn by J.J. Audubon and lithographed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia and Endicott of New York; plates also initialled: J.C.; W.E.H.; C.P.; R.T

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In honouring so humble an object as this Finch with the name of BACHMAN, my aim is to testify the high regard in which I hold that learned and most estimable individual, to whose friendship I owe...

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