Rose-breasted grosbeak (#127) – Vintage Print
![Rose-breasted grosbeak (#127), [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b5/b568424277c6-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 lithograph captures Rose-breasted grosbeak (#127) in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rose-breasted grosbeak (#127)
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Among the bird plates in Audubon's *Birds of America*, this hand-colored print shows the rose-breasted grosbeak, a songbird of eastern North America whose males carry a bright rose-red patch on the breast. Audubon issued the series in parts from the 1820s into the 1830s, and the plates were printed in London with color added by hand, so no two copies look exactly alike. No date survives for this particular sheet, but Audubon's habit of posing birds in natural settings, rather than in stiff profile, set his work apart from earlier bird illustrations.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Notes | Illus. in: John J. Audubon, Birds of America. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176208 |
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