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Arctic Yager – Historic Print

Arctic Yager, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Arctic Yager, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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Audubon's Arctic jaeger is shown here as a restless hunter, a northern seabird that makes its living by harrying other birds. Robert Havell engraved the copper plate and hand-colored the impressions after Audubon's drawing, and the image appears as plate 267 in volume four of the Birds of America Elephant Folio. Jaegers chase gulls and terns until the victims drop or disgorge their catch, a habit Audubon found worth recording. The folio's generous scale lets the bird's body and wings register at close to their natural size.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving, color.
NotesColor engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: Elephant Folio, Vol. IV, Pl. 267. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,083 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176332

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