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Audubon. After a photograph of a cast of the intaglio cut by John
C. King in 1844. Embossed medallion |
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Audubon. After the engraving by C. Turner, A.R.A., of the miniature
on ivory painted by Frederick Cruikshank about 1831; "London.
Published Jan. 12, 1835, for the Proprietor [supposed to
have been the engraver, but may have been Audubon or Havell],
by Robert Havell, Printseller, 77, Oxford Street." Photogravure |
Frontispiece |
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Statue of Audubon by Edward Virginius Valentine in Audubon Park,
New Orleans |
Facing 14 |
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The Audubon Monument in Trinity Cemetery, New York, on Children's
Day, June, 1915 |
Facing 14 |
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Les Cayes, Haiti: the wharf and postoffice |
Facing 40 |
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Les Cayes, Haiti: the market and Church of Sacré Cœur |
Facing 40 |
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First page of the bill rendered by Dr. Sanson, of Les Cayes, Santo
Domingo, to Jean Audubon for medical services from December
29, 1783, to October 19, 1785 |
Facing 54 |
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Second page of the Sanson bill, bearing, in the entry for April 26,
1785, the only record known to exist of the date of Audubon's
birth |
Facing 55 |
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Third page of the Sanson bill, signed as accepted by Jean Audubon,
October 12, 1786, and receipted by the doctor, when paid, June 7,
1787 |
Facing 59 |
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Audubon's signature at various periods. From early drawings, legal
documents and letters |
Facing 63 |
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Lieutenant Jean Audubon and Anne Moynet Audubon. After portraits
painted between 1801 and 1806, now at Couëron |
Facing 78 |
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Jean Audubon. After a portrait painted by the American artist
Polk, at Philadelphia, about 1789 |
Facing 78 |
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Jean Audubon's signature. From a report to the Directory of his
Department, when acting as Civil Commissioner, January to September,
1793 |
79 |
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Certificate of Service which Lieutenant Audubon received upon his
discharge from the French Navy, February 26, 1801 |
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"Mill Grove" in 1835 (about). After a water-color painting by Charles
Wetherill |
Facing 102 |
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"Mill Grove," Audubon, Pennsylvania, as it appears to-day |
Facing 102 |
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"Mill Grove" farmhouse, west front, as it appears to-day |
Facing 110 |
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"Fatland Ford," Audubon, Pennsylvania, the girlhood home of Lucy
Bakewell Audubon |
Facing 110 |
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Early drawings of French birds, 1805, hitherto unpublished: the male
Reed Bunting ("Sedge Sparrow"), and the male Redstart |
Facing 128 |
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Receipt given by Captain Sammis of the Polly to Audubon and Ferdinand
Rozier for their passage money from Nantes to New York,
May 28, 1806 |
134 |
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"La Gerbetière," Jean Audubon's country villa at Couëron, France, and
the naturalist's boyhood home |
Facing 136 |
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"La Gerbetière" and Couëron, as seen from the highest point in the
commune, windmill towers on the ridge overlooking Port Launay,
on the Loire |
Facing 142 |
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"La Gerbetière," as seen when approached from Couëron village by the
road to Port Launay |
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Port Launay on the Loire |
Facing 142 |
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Beginning of the "Articles of Association" of John James Audubon
and Ferdinand Rozier, signed at Nantes, March 23, 1806 |
Facing 146 |
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First page of a power of attorney granted by Jean Audubon, Anne
Moynet Audubon and Claude François Rozier to John James Audubon
and Ferdinand Rozier, Nantes, April 4, 1806 |
Facing 152 |
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Signatures of Jean Audubon, Anne Moynet Audubon, Dr. Chapelain
and Dr. Charles d'Orbigny to a power of attorney granted to John
James Audubon and Ferdinand Rozier, Couëron, November 20,
1806 |
Facing 153 |
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Early drawings of French birds, 1805, hitherto unpublished: the European
Crow, with detail of head of the Rook, and the White Wagtail |
Facing 174 |
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Early drawing in crayon point of the groundhog, 1805, hitherto unpublished |
Facing 182 |
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Water-color drawing of a young raccoon, 1841 |
Facing 182 |
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Alexander Wilson |
Facing 212 |
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William Bartram |
Facing 212 |
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The "twin" Mississippi Kites of Wilson and Audubon, the similarity
of which inspired charges of misappropriation against Audubon |
Facing 228
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Audubon's signature to the release given to Ferdinand Rozier on the
dissolution of their partnership in 1811 |
242 |
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Ferdinand Rozier in his eighty-fifth year (1862) |
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Rozier's old store at Ste. Geneviève, Kentucky |
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Letter of Audubon to Ferdinand Rozier, signed "Audubon & Bakewell,"
and dated October 19, 1813, during the first partnership
under this style |
Facing 246 |
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Audubon's Mill at Henderson, Kentucky, since destroyed, as seen from
the bank of the Ohio River |
Facing 254 |
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An old street in the Couëron of today |
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"Les Tourterelles," Couëron, final home of Anne Moynet Audubon, and
the resting-place of exact records of the naturalist's birth and
early life |
Facing 264 |
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Early drawings of American birds, 1808-9, hitherto unpublished: the
Belted Kingfisher and the Wild Pigeon |
Facing 292 |
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Bayou Sara Landing, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, at the junction
of Bayou Sara and the Mississippi River |
Facing 314 |
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Scene on Bayou Sara Creek, Audubon's hunting ground in
1821 |
Facing 314 |
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Road leading from Bayou Sara Landing to the village of St. Francisville,
West Feliciana Parish |
Facing 318 |
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"Oakley," the James Pirrie plantation house near St. Francisville, where
Audubon made some of his famous drawings while acting as a
tutor in 1821 |
Facing 318 |
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An early letter of Audubon to Edward Harris, written at Philadelphia,
July 14, 1824 |
332 |
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Note of Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell, written hurriedly in pencil,
recommending Audubon to his friend, Dr. Barnes, August 4,
1824 |
337 |
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Crayon portrait of Miss Jennett Benedict, an example of Audubon's
itinerant portraiture. After the original drawn by Audubon at
Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1824 |
Facing 342 |
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Miss Eliza Pirrie, Audubon's pupil at "Oakley" in 1821. After an
oil portrait |
Facing 342 |
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Early drawing of the "Frog-eater," Cooper's Hawk, 1810, hitherto unpublished |
Facing 348 |
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Pencil sketch of a "Shark, 7 feet long, off Cuba," from Audubon's
Journal of his voyage to England in 1826 |
Facing 348 |
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First page of Audubon's Journal of his voyage from New Orleans to
Liverpool in 1826 |
Facing 349
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Cock Turkey, The Birds of America, Plate I. After the original
engraving by W. H. Lizars, retouched by Robert Havell.
Color |
Facing 358 |
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Title page of the original edition of The Birds of America, Volume II,
1831-1834 |
381 |
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The Prothonotary Warbler plates, The Birds of America, Plate XI,
bearing the legends of the engravers, W. H. Lizars and Robert
Havell, Jr., but identical in every other detail of engraving |
Facing 384 |
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Reverse of panels of Robert Havell's advertising folder reproduced
on facing insert |
386 |
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Outside engraved panels of an advertising folder issued by Robert
Havell about 1834. After the only original copy known to
exist |
386 |
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Inside engraved panels of Robert Havell's advertising folder, showing
the interior of the "Zoölogical Gallery," 77 Oxford Street |
Facing 387 |
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Reverse of panels of Robert Havell's advertising folder, reproduced
on facing insert |
387 |
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Title page of Audubon's Prospectus of The Birds of America for
1831 |
391 |
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English Pheasants surprised by a Spanish Dog. After a painting by
Audubon in the American Museum of Natural History |
Facing 394 |
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Letter of William Swainson to Audubon, May, 1828 |
402 |
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Audubon. After an oil portrait, hitherto unpublished, painted about
1826 by W. H. Holmes |
Facing 412 |
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Part of letter of Charles Lucien Bonaparte to Audubon, January
10, 1829 |
417 |
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Mrs. Dickie's "Boarding Residence," 26 George Street, Edinburgh,
where Audubon painted and wrote in 1826-27, and in 1830-31 |
Facing 438 |
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The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. After an old
print |
Facing 438 |
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Title page of the Ornithological Biography, Volume I |
441 |
