Crimson Fronted Purple Finch – Vintage Print
![Crimson Fronted Purple Finch, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8b/8b532d543434-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.)
Description
This rare antique engraving captures Crimson Fronted Purple Finch in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Crimson Fronted Purple Finch
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The crimson-fronted purple finch is set apart by its male plumage, with a rosy-red head and breast that contrasts with the browner females and young birds of the same species. John James Audubon drew the study himself, and this color engraving reproduces it through the work of J.T. Bowen, the Philadelphia engraver who produced plates for the smaller octavo edition of Audubon's bird book, where this one is numbered 197. The octavo volumes made Audubon's detailed natural-history images far more affordable than the enormous original folio, reaching schools, families and amateur naturalists. The record gives no date, so the year of printing is uncertain.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, color. |
| Notes | Color engraving by J.T. Bowen, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: Octavo Edition, Pl. 197 This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 942 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176313 |
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