Whooping Crane, <I>Grus Americana</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1834
name: label: referenced
content: Audubon, John James
label: referenced
content: Havell, Jr., Robert
label: engraver
content: Havell, Jr., Robert
label: original artist
content: Audubon, John James
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Havell Jr. engraved this copper plate in 1834 for John James Audubon's publication, <U>Birds of America</U>, 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 a number of editions of the work.
label: Description
content: <U>Birds of America</U> 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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William E. Dodge, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16984
label: catalog number
content: 16984
label: accession number
content: 15996
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Name
content: plate, printing
label: Object Type
content: Aquatint
label: Object Type
content: printing plates
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
label: Other Terms
content: plate; Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel-faced (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 1/4 in x 26 1/8 in; 99.695 cm x 66.3575 cm