[John James Audubon bird naturalist] – Antique Wall Art
![[John James Audubon bird naturalist], 1850 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1b/1bc5e235e91d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [John James Audubon bird naturalist]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[John James Audubon bird naturalist]
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Audubon is an unexpected subject for a Japanese woodblock print, and this sheet shows John James Audubon (1785–1851), the American painter and naturalist whose life-size studies of North American birds made up *The Birds of America*. The print is a color woodcut on hōsho paper, and the Library of Congress cites a reference on Yokohama prints for it, a genre of foreign-themed images that flourished after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859. The record gives 1850, which may be an estimate, since that genre developed later. The credited artists, Toyohara Kunichika, Utagawa Kuniaki and Utagawa Toyokuni III, were all prominent members of the Utagawa school.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 22.5 cm. (block) 37 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Extensive unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheet of paper. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 156; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 43. Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 74 (p. 172) Earlier control number: 236.3-4. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,000 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227242 |
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