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In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen, entrepreneur, and family man whose fervent desire to “become acquainted with nature” had led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist whose study of birds would soon earn him international acclaim. The drawings he made during this crucial decade—sold to Audubon’s friend and patron Edward Harris to help fund his masterwork The Birds of America, and now held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative ...

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In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen, entrepreneur, and family man whose fervent desire to “become acquainted with nature” had led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist whose study of birds would soon earn him international acclaim. The drawings he made during this crucial decade—sold to Audubon’s friend and patron Edward Harris to help fund his masterwork The Birds of America, and now held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University—are published together here for the first time in large format and full color. In these 116 portraits of species collected in America and in Europe we see Audubon inventing his ingenious methods of posing and depicting his subjects, and we trace his development into a scientist and an artist who could proudly sign his artworks “drawn from Nature.” The drawings also serve as a record of the birds found in Europe and the Eastern United States in the early nineteenth century, some now rare or extinct.

The drawings are enhanced by an essay on the sources of Audubon’s art by his biographer, Richard Rhodes; transcription of Audubon’s own annotations to the drawings, including information on when and where the specimens were collected; ornithological commentary by Scott V. Edwards, along with reflections on Audubon as scientist; and an account of the history of the Harris collection by Leslie A. Morris.

Splendid in their own right, these drawings also illuminate the self-invention of one of the most important figures in American natural history. They will delight all those interested in American art, nature, birds, and the life and times of John James Audubon.

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Drawings [Audubon] made during the period leading up to the publication of his famous The Birds of America are held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and are published together here for the first time in large format and full color. Audubon biographer Richard Rhodes provides background to their creation. Also included are transcriptions of Audubon's annotations to the drawings and ornithological commentary on Audubon's depictions of birds found in Europe and the Eastern United States in the early nineteenth century, some now rare or extinct.
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Prior to the publication of Birds of America, John James Audubon spent decades honing his talents. Audubon: Early Drawings sheds insight into Audubon's trajectory as an artist and naturalist, offering 116 bird and mammal images from the fledgling stages of his career...A wide-eyed belted kingfisher is charming with a disheveled crown of slate blue plumes. Meanwhile, the composition of a Carolina parakeet perched among pecan branches is appealing not only for its organic symmetry but for its value as one of the few visual records of the now-extinct species--a reminder of Audubon's timeless relevance.
— Julie Leibach

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780674031029
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication date: 9/15/2008
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 579,768
  • Product dimensions: 11.80 (w) x 14.40 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Rhodes is the award-winning author of numerous works of nonfiction, fiction, and biography, including John James Audubon: The Making of an American, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Scott V. Edwards is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Leslie A. Morris is Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Table of Contents


  • Contents


  • History of the Harris Collection by Leslie A. Morris

  • The Sources of Audubon’s Art by Richard Rhodes

  • Audubon the Scientist by Scott V. Edwards


  • Early Drawings

  • Plates 1–68. American Species

  • Plates 69–111. European Species

  • Plates 112–116. Exotics and Mammals


  • Note on Order

  • References

  • Acknowledgments

  • Index

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