Audubon: Early Drawings
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674031024 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Wonderful view of Audubon's beginnings This wonderfully assembled collection of drawings gives you a rare glimpse of Audubon's early years of art and ornithology. Created long before he would achieve fame for his Birds of North America portfolio, these drawings offer insight into his formative years . Audubon Early Drawings D. Hochstetler The book is a very good review of the work of Audubon prior to the publication of "Birds of North America". The plates reveal the beginning of Audubon growth as an illustrator as he began his career. I believe that this high quality volume would be a great addit. Currently a unique resource Jonathan K I have been trying to research the European birds by Audubon for a while. They otherwise receive little more than small mentions and footnotes in journals or articles. The only way to see these would be to go to the Harvard library which I have been unable to do
The drawings he made during this crucial decade—sold to Audubon’s friend and patron Edward Harris to help fund his masterwork The Birds of America, and now held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University—are published together here for the first time in large format and full color. Morris. Splendid in their own right, these drawings also illuminate the self-invention of one of the most important figures in American natural history. The drawings are enhanced by an essay on the sources of Audubon’s art by his biographer, Richard Rhodes; transcription of Audubon’s own annotations to the drawings, including information on when and where the specimens were collected; ornithological commentary by Scott V. In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then France to take refuge in frontier America. They will delight all those interested in Am
Edwards is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.Leslie A. . Morris is Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Richard Rhodes is the award-winning author of numerous works of nonfiction, fiction, and b
Meanwhile, the composition of a Carolina parakeet perched among pecan branches is appealing not only for its organic symmetry but for its value as one of the few visual records of the now-extinct species--a reminder of Audubon's timeless relevance. --Julie Leibach (Audubon 2008-09-01)Impressive in its oblong shape and handsomely slip-cased in cloth, Audubon: Early Drawings represents the first large-format full-color publication of the Harris Collection in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, comprising 116 depictions of species Audubon collected in the United States and Europe, dating primarily between 1805 and 1832. By 1810, however, we see the emergi