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The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States
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The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States

Medium

Illustrations: hand-colored lithographs

Dimensions

book: 10 7/16 x 6 11/16 in. (26.5 x 17 cm) page: 10 x 6 3/8 in. (25.4 x 16.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Emma Sheafer, 1974

Classification

Books

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John James Audubon

1785–1851United StatesFrance

American Naturalist, painter, and draughtsman of French–Creole descent. Brought up in a French village near Nantes, moved to and worked in the the United States.