Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)Herrick, Francis Hobart
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Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Herrick, Francis Hobart
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Plate i (1st edit., Lizars; Brit. Mus.).—"Great American
Cock Male—Vulgo (Wild Turkey) Meleagris Gallopavo. Drawn
by J. J. Audubon, M. W. S. Engraved by W. H. Lizars
Edinr."
Plate i (2nd or later edit., Havell; Boston Soc. Nat.
Hist.).—"Wild Turkey. Meleagris Gallopavo. Linn. Male
American Cane. Miegia macrosperma. Drawn from nature by
J. J. Audubon F.R.S., F.L.S. Engraved by W. H. Lizars
Edinr. Retouched by R. Havell Junr."
Plate vi (1st edit., Lizars; Brit. Mus.).—"Great
American Hen & Young, Vulgo, Female Wild
Turkey—Meleagris Gallopavo. Drawn from Nature by John J.
Audubon F.R.S.E. M.W.S. Engraved by W. H. Lizars Edinr."
Plate vi (2nd or later edit., Havell; detached
plate).—The same with the exception of "F.L.S.," added
to Audubon's name, and "Retouched by R. Havell. Junr.
London, 1829."
Plate vi (3rd or later edit., Havell; Bost. Soc.
Nat. Hist.).—"Wild Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo. Linn.
Female and Young." (Artist's name apparently cut off
by binder.) "Engraved by W. H. Lizars. Retouched by R.
Havell. Junr."
Plate 31. (1st edit., Havell. Brit. Mus.).—"White-headed
Eagle, male. Falco Leucocephalus. Fish Fulgo—Yellow mud
Cat. Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon,
F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.W.S. Engraved, Printed & Coloured by
R. Havell & Son, London, 1828."
Plate xxxi (2nd or later edit., Havell; Bost. Soc. Nat.
Hist.).—"White-headed Eagle, Falco Leucocephalus. Linn.
Male. Yellow Cat-fish. Drawn from Nature and Published
by John J. Audubon. F.R.S. F.L.S. Engraved, Printed &
Coloured, by R. Havell."
Plates which were wholly the work of Lizars have naturally become
extremely rare; they were evidently disregarded by Audubon when he
recorded on July 2, 1827, that he had given Mr. Children a proof
of his first number, which he called "the first in existence," and
declared that the two guineas then received was the first money that
had been returned to his hands. Lizars' initial number had actually
been finished in the previous winter, and a copy of this is recorded
as having been given to the daughter of Sir Walter Scott on the 9th of
March, 1827.
When Audubon had finally closed all his business affairs in Edinburgh
and London, late in the summer of 1839, he returned to America, with
the remaining members of his family, and settled in New York, where
he purchased a house at Number 84 White Street, then in the uptown
district.
An anonymous writer in the London _Athenæum_[161] in giving a final
review of Audubon's labors in 1839, paid this interesting tribute:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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