Robert Havell, Jr.
Roseate Spoonbill

EngraverAmerican, 1793–1878
ArtistAmerican, born Santo Domingo, 1785–1851
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Roseate Spoonbill
Date1836
PlaceLondon, England
MediumEtching and aquatint with watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 25 1/2 × 38 1/8 in. (64.8 × 96.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.75.60
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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionArtist, naturalist, and ornithologist John James Audubon was born 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-sized images.
Provenance[The Old Print Shop, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1952; given to MFAH, 1975.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed upper left: No.[o superscript with period [.] underneath] 65
Inscribed upper right: PLATE CCCXXI
Inscribed below image, left: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon F.R.S. F.L.S.
Inscribed below image, right: Engraved, Printed and Coloured by R. Havell, 1836
Inscribed below image, center: Roseate Spoonbill. / PLATALEA AJAJA, L / Male Adult
Watermark of J WHATMAN in upper right corner

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