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Audubon: Early Drawings

Audubon: Early Drawings

Rhodes, Richard
Audubon, John James
Edwards, Scott V.

Hardcover

American Art - GeneralGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 0674031024
ISBN13: 9780674031029
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 6.55
Height: 1.26 Width: 11.66 Depth: 14.42
Language: English

In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen, entrepreneur, and family man whose fervent desire to become acquainted with nature had led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist whose study of birds would soon earn him international acclaim. The drawings he made during this crucial decade--sold to Audubon's friend and patron Edward Harris to help fund his masterwork The Birds of America, and now held by Harvard's Houghton Library and Museum of Comparative Zoology--are published together here for the first time in large format and full color. In these 116 portraits of species collected in America and in Europe we see Audubon inventing his ingenious methods of posing and depicting his subjects, and we trace his development into a scientist and an artist who could proudly sign his artworks drawn from Nature. The drawings also serve as a record of the birds found in Europe and the Eastern United States in the early nineteenth century, some now rare or extinct.

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