Object Number 1959.0162.001

Object Name

Print (Aquatint)

Title

Wild Turkey./ MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO. Linn, Male. American Cane. Miegi macosperma.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Mrs. G. Brooks Thayer

Creator (Role)

William Home Lizars (Etcher)
1788-03/30/1859

Robert Havell Jr. (Aquatinter, printer and colorist)
1793-1878
Engraver, printer, and colorist for many of the plates of Audubon's Birds of America.

John James Audubon (Designer, draftsman, and publisher)
04/26/1785-01/27/1851
Works include Birds of America (1827-38) and Vivaparus Quadrupeds of North America (1845-51).

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Origin Notes

Plate retouched, printed and colored by Havell in London.

Secondary Place of Origin

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, South, United States, North America

Secondary Origin Notes

Scholars believe Audubon painted this bird in 1825 at Beechwoods, Mrs. Robert Percy's plantation near St. Francisville, where he and his wife, Lucy, stayed and taught school and painting from November 1824 to spring of 1826.

Date

1827-1839

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Bottom left beneath image; Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon F.R.S. F.L.S.
2. Inscription; Bottom right beneath image; Engraved by W.H. Lizars Edin.\r
3. Inscription; Bottom right beneath image; Retouched by R. Havell Jun.\r

Subjects

Zoological illustration

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Aquatint, Etched, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

38.2 (H) , 25.6 (W) , 37.3 (Image H) , 24.8 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

97 (H) , 65 (W) , 37.3 (Image H) , 24.8 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate measurements not available; plate marks not visible.

Publisher Summary

Audubon, John James

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

III

Watermark

"J WHATMAN/ 1832"

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

From Volume I of the first edition double-elephant folio of John James Audubon, The Birds of America (London: J. J. Audubon, 1827-30). Three variant legends exist for this plate. The two other legends are: 1.) [without aquatint] PLATE I. (centered top)/ Great American Cock Male - VULGO (WILD TURKEY-) Meleagris Gallopavo/ Engraved by W.H. Lizars Edin\r.; 2.) [with aquatint] N.\o 1. PLATE I/ Great American Cock Male - VULGO (WILD TURKEY-) Meleagris Gallopavo/ Engraved by W.H. Lizars Edin\r./ Reto

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 344, pp. 482-3.
[Book] Low, Susanne M. 2002 A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America.
• Plate listed on p. 28.