Object Number 1959.0162.216

Object Name

Print (Aquatint)

Title

Snow Goose,/ ANSER HYPERBOREUS, Pallas./ Adult Male 1__ Young Female first Winter _2.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Mrs. G. Brooks Thayer

Creator (Role)

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).

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Origin Notes

Plate engraved, printed and colored by Havell in London.

Secondary Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Secondary Origin Notes

Probably painted by Audubon in Boston, autumn of 1832. He wrote in Ornithological Biography of buying a live Snow Goose at that time for seventy-five cents, which he then kept in his yard.

Date

1837

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, Printed and Coloured, by R. Havell , 1837.

Subjects

Zoological illustration

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove); Board

Techniques

Aquatint, Etched, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

25.4 (H) , 38.4 (W) , 24.4 (Image H) , 37.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

64.6 (H) , 97.5 (W) , 24.4 (Image H) , 37.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at right. W at bottom. Plate measurements not available; plate marks not visible.

Publisher Summary

Audubon, John James

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

I

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

From the first edition double-elephant folio of John James Audubon, The Birds of America (London: J. J. Audubon, 1827-39). Bands in rocks at lower right ((that follow the water level) filled with burinwork crosshatching in place of aquatint.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Low, Susanne M. 2002 A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America.
• Plate listed on p. 193.