Sorex Palustris Rich
date: label: date made
content: 1847
name: label: artist
content: Audubon, John Woodhouse
label: printer
content: Bowen, John T.
label: publisher
content: Audubon, John James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This hand-colored lithograph was produced for “Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,” the Imperial folio edition, published between 1845 and 1848. The work was a field study of North American mammals. It included 150 stone lithographs produced in three volumes of 50 prints per volume. The lithographs were based on watercolor drawings by John James Audubon and after 1846, son John Woodhouse Audubon, who completed the series due to the elder Audubon’s failing eyesight and declining health. Another son, Victor Gifford Audubon, assisted with the drawings backgrounds. The lithographs were printed on non-watermarked heavy white paper and coloring was applied by hand before the prints were bound. Reverend John Bachman was a naturalist of note, as well as John James Audubon’s friend and father of both daughter-in-laws, so he provided the accompanying letterpress narrative. It made the production truly a family affair. The slightly later Octavo edition contained 155 prints of smaller size.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This unbound lithographic plate depicts a hand-colored image of two shrews scampering across boulders toward a pond. Boulders are surrounded by wildflowers on the right and barren trees on the left.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1840-1849
label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Wild Animals
label: used
content: Books
label: depicted
content: Mammals
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Audubon, John James; Bachman, Rev. John; Audubon, John Woodhouse. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2740
label: catalog number
content: 60.2740
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 14 in x 21 3/4 in; 35.56 cm x 55.245 cm