The Birds of America
by John James Audubon · first published 1827
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The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio differs in a number of ways -- besides its dimensions -- from earlier editions of The Birds of America and from John James Audubon's original, massive Double-Elephant Folio, the heaviest volume of which weighs 56 pounds. These plates are organized not in the order that Audubon produced them for his subscribers but phylogenetically; that is, in a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms -- from the most primitive living examples to the most recently evolved -- in
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One could write an analogous article about birds. In painting the 435 images in The Birds of America, John James Audubon probably shot at least a few of each species. And then stuffed and mounted them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#/media/File...
on “Enough with the dead butterflies” ↗This reminds me of John James Audubon and his seminal work, "The Birds of America." Audubon dedicated much of his life trying to paint every American bird. He basically crowdfunded the work by getting people to pay in advance for bird prints. "The Birds of America" is a book of…
on “In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)” ↗>”John James Audubon, a prominent 19th-century artist, naturalist and slave owner whose detailed, colourful paintings in the book The Birds of America set the gold standard for generations of ornithologists.” I had no idea, and truth be told “Audubon” simply existed as a term in my mind. I never gave a second thought as to what it actually stood for.…
on “Bird Union drops Audubon name to distance from namesake’s racist past” ↗