John James Audubon
Four Birds: Yellow Billed Magpie; Steller's Jay; Ultramarine Jay; Clark's Crow

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Artist John James AudubonAmerican, born Santo Domingo, 1785–1851

CultureAmerican

Titles

Four Birds: Yellow Billed Magpie; Steller's Jay; Ultramarine Jay; Clark's Crow

Datec. 1830–1848

PlaceUnited States

MediumEtching, aquatint and engraving with watercolor and gouache on wove paper

DimensionsPlate: 25 5/8 × 20 1/4 in. (65.1 × 51.4 cm)
Sheet: 26 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (66.7 × 54 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.71.3

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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

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DescriptionArtist, naturalist, and ornithologist John James Audubon was born in 1785 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in present-day Haiti. At the age of eighteen, he immigrated to the United States. His most important work, The Birds of America, included 435 engraved plates based on his watercolors that were issued between 1827 and 1838. The plates were printed on the largest sheets of paper then available in order to preserve the life-size images.
ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, 1971.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, top left corner: No73.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, top right corner: PLATE CCCLXII.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, bottom left corner: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audobon, F.R.S. F.L.S.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, bottom right corner: Engraved. Printed and Coloured by R.Havell. 1837.

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