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Audubon’s Watercolors Preparatory for The Birds of America (1827-38)
Part of the New-York Historical Society’s original mandate was to collect natural history material. Today, the Audubon collection, the largest single repository of Auduboniana in the world, remains the most important vestige of that natural history collection. The New-York Historical Society holds 435 watercolors by John James Audubon. This cube includes images of songbirds from the collection including: Gray Jay, Canada Warbler, American Kestrel, Mourning Dove, Magnolia Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, Prothonotary Warbler, White-crowned pigeon and Carolina Parakeet.
Part of the New-York Historical Society’s original mandate was to collect natural history material. Today, the Audubon collection, the largest single repository of Auduboniana in the world, remains the most important vestige of that natural history collection. The New-York Historical Society holds 435 watercolors by John James Audubon. This cube includes images of songbirds from the collection including: Gray Jay, Canada Warbler, American Kestrel, Mourning Dove, Magnolia Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, Prothonotary Warbler, White-crowned pigeon and Carolina Parakeet.
