Hooping Crane,/ GRUS AMERICANA./ Young./ View in the Interior of the Florida with Sand Hills in the distance
Prints and Maps
Robert Havell Jr. (Engraver, printer and colorist)
John James Audubon (Designer, draftsman, and publisher)
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1835
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Aquatint, Etched, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted
1959.0162.142
Object Number1959.0162.142 |
Print (Aquatint)
Hooping Crane,/ GRUS AMERICANA./ Young./ View in the Interior of the Florida with Sand Hills in the distance
Prints and Maps
Gift of Mrs. G. Brooks Thayer
Robert Havell Jr. (Engraver, 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).
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Plate engraved, printed and colored by Havell in London.
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
Presumably painted by Audubon in Boston during the winter of 1832-33, as he writes at length in Ornithological Biography that he received a live Sandhill Crane at that time, which he then kept in his backyard.
1835
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, Printed, & Coloured, by R. Havell. 1835
Zoological illustration
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Aquatint, Etched, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted
38.2 (H) , 25.6 (W) , 36.9 (Image H) , 23.1 (Image W)
97.1 (H) , 64.9 (W) , 36.9 (Image H) , 23.1 (Image W)
H at right. W at top. Plate measurements not available; plate marks not visible.
Audubon, John James
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
I
Top left (sideways): "J WHATMAN/ 1835"
Hand colored with watercolors
From the first edition double-elephant folio of John James Audubon, The Birds of America (London: J. J. Audubon, 1827-39).
Text available soon.
[Book] Low, Susanne M. 2002 A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America.
• Plate listed on p. 144.