Horned Grebe
date: label: Date made
content: 1835
name: label: referenced
content: Havell, Jr., Robert
label: referenced
content: Audubon, John James
label: original artist
content: Audubon, John James
label: graphic artist
content: Havell, Jr., Robert
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Havell Jr. engraved this copper plate in 1835 for John James Audubon's publication, <I>the Birds of America</I>, published in Britain between 1827 and 1838 as a series of large folio engravings. The Museum's Graphic Arts Collection includes seven of the original copper plates and prints from several editions of the work.
label: Description
content: <I>The Birds of America</I> was published in several formats. The first large folio edition was intended for wealthy patrons or institutions. Later editions, produced in the United States for a more general audience, included text and smaller, less costly lithographic illustrations.
label: Description
content: Audubon introduced new species and new artistic forms. His dramatic images of birds, pictured life-size in animated poses with realistic backgrounds, represented a departure from the conventions of natural history illustration. His artistic ingenuity, as reproduced in engravings and lithographs, won new audiences for the subject of nature study, eventually leading to the organization of Audubon societies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Printmaking
label: Subject
content: Birds
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. E. Dodge, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.00927
label: accession number
content: 1884.015094
label: catalog number
content: 00927
label: accession number
content: 15094
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Name
content: plate, printing
label: Object Type
content: printing plates
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
label: Other Terms
content: plate; Engraving; Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38.5 cm x 53.6 cm x 2.9 mm; 15 5/32 in x 21 3/32 in x 1/8 in