Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa], Roe Lockwood & Son; Julius Bien; John James Audubon

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Roe Lockwood & Son; Julius Bien; John James Audubon, Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]
Roe Lockwood & Son; Julius Bien; John James Audubon, Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]
John James Audubon , , Julius Bien
Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]
1860
John James Audubon, author
1785–1851
, artist
Julius Bien, artist
Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa], 1860
Portfolio/Series title: The Birds of America, from Drawings by John James Audubon ... Re-Issued by J.W. Audubon. Vol. 1.
Where object was made: New York, New York, United States
Material/technique: chromolithograph
Credit line: Courtesy of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Accession number: EL2020.011
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We’re lucky to have this original Bien edition Audubon included in the exhibition on loan from the Spencer Research Library. The first, Havell edition of the Birds of America was printed via etching and other intaglio techniques on metal plates, but just a few years later, chromolithography was the hip new printing technology of choice, and that’s the technique you see in this print.