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

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

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Four Birds: Yellow Billed Magpie; Steller's Jay; Ultramarine Jay; Clark's Crow
ArtistAmerican, 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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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
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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