Keywords John James Audubon, ornithologist, painter, birds, nature, wildlife, "The Birds of America," American history, legacy, preservation. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks ...

Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Ornithological biography Lizars, W. H (William Home) 1788-1859 Havell, Robert 1769-1832 ... "This facsimile edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America was produced ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds.Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ...

John James Audubon’s Birds of America series captures the wondrous appearances and behaviors of North American avians, recording 435 species in their natural habitats. Those environments, though ...

Audubon, who documented the birds of North America in detailed paintings and influenced the study of ornithology, was not, however, the heroic character he was portrayed to be.

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s ...

John James Audubon’s Birds of America is a landmark work in ornithological illustration, first published between 1827 and 1838. It is renowned for the life-sized prints that detail nearly 435 species ...

The public, and Audubon's fellow naturalists, were astonished by the discovery. It was a career-making moment for Audubon, and it helped him secure funding to print his seminal work, Birds of America.

John James Audubon had his paintings made into 435 prints, which could be sold to subscribers in a series of sets, then eventually bound into the project we know as “The Birds of America.” ...