Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813 – Historic Print
![Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b92024c3988b-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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Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813 comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813
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This portrait shows Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the Scottish-born poet and weaver who became the founder of American ornithology after emigrating to Philadelphia in 1794. Wilson spent years traveling the eastern United States to document its birds, and his nine-volume *American Ornithology* (1808-1814), with illustrations he drew himself, was the first comprehensive survey of the nation's birds. The record describes this as a halftone reproduction of a drawing, a photomechanical process that came into wide use in the late nineteenth century, so the image is a later copy of an earlier portrait. The caption card does not record a date, so the original drawing's date and artist remain unconfirmed.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Notes | Halftone repro. of drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. Sources checked: LC/AZ. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,089 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156919 |
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