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Wild Turkey

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Wild Turkey
EngraverScottish, 1788–1859
ArtistAmerican, born Santo Domingo, 1785–1851
CultureScottish
Titles
  • Wild Turkey
Datec. 1827–1832
PlaceEdinburgh, Scotland
MediumEtching, aquatint and engraving with watercolor and gouache on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 25 1/2 × 38 1/4 in. (64.8 × 97.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.73.3
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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.
Provenance[The Old Print Shop, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1951; given to MFAH, 1973.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed below image: Wild Turkey, MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO. Linn. Female and Young [center]; Engraved by W.H. Liz[z flipped]ars. / Retouched by R. Havell, Junr.[r superscript with period [.] underneath] [right]; Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon F, R, S, F, L, S [left]
Verso: Watermark, top left: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL [date obscured]

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