Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, John T. Bowen; John James Audubon

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John T. Bowen; John James Audubon, Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo
John T. Bowen; John James Audubon, Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo
John James Audubon , John T. Bowen
Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo
1840–1844
John James Audubon, artist
1785–1851
John T. Bowen, lithographer
Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, 1840–1844
Portfolio/Series title: The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
Where object was made: North and Central America
Material/technique: lithograph; hand coloring
Credit line: Courtesy of Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology, Kansas City, MO
Accession number: EL2020.005
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Very few people in the 1820s and ‘30s could afford or even had space to own the full Havell edition of the Birds of America, and by 1840, Audubon began working on a smaller edition of the series. These Royal Octavo edition plates are one eighth the scale of the Havell and Bien editions. I had such fun visiting the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City to study these books and am so appreciative they are letting us borrow several volumes for this exhibition.