Audubon's Woodpecker
Name/Title
Audubon's WoodpeckerEntry/Object ID
JJA.2001.8aDescription
This is a lithographic print titled, "Audubon's Woodpecker" from Audubon's royal octavo edition of The Birds of America, plate 265. The lithograph is hand-colored featuring a single male woodpecker with teal blue, black, and white feathers and a white, black, and yellow crown. The woodpecker is perched upside down on a tree branch. The tree shows no foliage and brown, silver and gray bark. Printed in the upper left corner is, "No. 53." and in the upper right corner, "Pl. 265." Printed below the image is, "AU(?) / Audubon's Woodpecker / Male. / Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon F.R.S. F. L. S. / Lith.d Printed & Col.d by J. T. Bowen Phil" Text is printed on the reverse.Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Watercolor, InkCollection
H. Neal Stoneback CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Audubon, John James
Bowen, J. T., 1801-1856