Research Catalog

Title

The original water-color paintings by John James Audubon for the birds of America : reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society / introduction by Marshall B. Davidson.

Author

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

Publication

• New York : American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1966.
• Boston : Distributed to Booksellers by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davidson, Marshall B.
• Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Description

2 v. illus. (part col.) facsim., 431 col. plates (part fold.) ports. (1 col.); 35 cm.

Summary

"With this publication virtually the entire series of paintings created by John James Audubon for The Birds of America is reproduced for the first time in full color and with the accuracy made possible by modern photographic techniques. There is nothing in American art to which this large collection of Audubon's original work can be compared. No other artist of his time was so sensitively and intimately concerned with the natural wonders of the American scene. No single person before or since has contributed so much to the art of painting birds." --

Subject

• Birds > North America
• Birds > Pictorial works
• Birds
• Birds
• North America
• North America

Genre/Form

• Pictorial Work
• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Watercolors – 19th century – Reproductions.
• Illustrated works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• M. B. Davidson edited the descriptive captions, which include many quotations from Audubon's Ornithological biography.

Contents

v. 1. Introduction -- Introduction to the plates -- The plates -- v. 2. The plates -- Chronology -- Appendix : Cross-reference between Havell's engravings for The Birds of America and Audubon's original water-color paintings as reproduced in this edition.

LCCN

66017926

OCLC

• ocm00555621
• 555621
• SCSB-741846

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library