Caracara Eagle
date: label: Date made
content: 1840
label: date made
content: 1843
name: label: graphic artist
content: Bowen, John T.
label: original artist
content: Audubon, John James
notes: label: Description
content: John James Audubon's publication The Birds of America was published in several formats. The first large folio edition was intended for wealthy patrons or institutions. Later editions, produced in the U.S. 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 over new audiences for the subject of nature study.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Birds
label: Subject
content: Printmaking
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0117.05
label: accession number
content: 1998.0117
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0117.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: Lithograph
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithographic Processes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.1 cm x 18.2 cm; 11 1/16 in x 7 3/16 in