Birds of a Feather (originally entitled "Where Have You Gone, John Audubon?"

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Orson Wells once remarked that Chaucer's England was a world where the sky was a little bluer and the hay a little sweeter. The same can be said of John Audubon's America.

In "Audubon's Aviary: Parts Unknown," the second of a three-part series, The New-York Historical Society continues to celebrate the career of the French-born American naturalist, showcasing watercolors by his own hand for the historic double-elephant-folio print edition of The Birds of America (1827-38), engraved by Robert Havell Jr., alongside other related works from the series.

(read the entire review at The New York Sun online)

^ "Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Havell pl. 181." (1833)

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^ "Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Study for Havell pl. 211, 1821." (1834)

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^ "Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), Study for Havell pl. 184." (ca. 1832)

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^ "Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), Study for Havell pl. 206, 1821. " (ca. 1825)

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^ "Atlantic Puffin (Fractercula arctica), Study for Havell pl. 213." (1833)

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