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[John James Audubon, 1785-1851, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right in oval memorial portrait fringed by bird vignettes] – Antique Photo Print

[John James Audubon, 1785-1851, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right in oval memorial portrait fringed by bird vignettes], [1854] — antique engraving
[John James Audubon, 1785-1851, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right in oval memorial portrait fringed by bird vignettes], [1854]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Three years after his death in 1851, John James Audubon is honored in this oval memorial portrait, with small bird vignettes framing his head and shoulders. The wood engraving appeared in *Gleason's Pictorial*, a Boston illustrated weekly that printed engraved likenesses of notable people. Audubon's reputation rests on *The Birds of America*, a large series of hand-colored bird plates issued in London between 1827 and 1838 that made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic. The bird motifs around his profile tie the portrait directly to that lifework.

Created / published[1854]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesWood engraving from: Gleason's Pictorial, 1854 - 6:273. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,186 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124770

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