Black Skimmer – Antique Print
![Black Skimmer, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/be/bee393d78941-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Black Skimmer. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few birds feed the way the black skimmer does, slicing the surface of shallow water with its longer lower bill as it flies low. This color engraving reproduces Audubon's drawing as Robert Havell engraved it for the Elephant Folio edition of *The Birds of America*, where it appears as plate 323 in the third volume. The prints were colored by hand, so the black, white, and red-orange tones on the page reflect the workshop as much as Audubon's original painting. The record gives no date for this impression, but it belongs to a project issued in London between 1827 and 1838.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, color. |
| Notes | Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: Elephant Folio, Vol. III, Pl. 323. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,257 × 1,402 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176309 |
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