Audubon Day at the Hamersly Library -- WOU Library and Media Services

Audubon Day
May 22, 2003

Audubon Day at the Hamersly Library

Thursday, May 22, 2003, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,
Hamersly Library exhibited Audubon items from the University Archives.

John James Audubon, (1785–1851) was an American painter-naturalist. Born at Haiti, brought up in France, he received instruction in drawing from J.L. David. He moved to the USA in 1803 to avoid conscription in Napoleon's army and lived as a naturalist, hunter, and taxidermist, also earning some money as a portraitist and drawing master. His combined interests in art and ornithology grew into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. Unable to find a publisher in America, Audubon spent three years in England (1826–9) and found an engraver and publisher in the London firm of Robert Havell and Son. The Birds of America, from Original Drawings, with 435 Plates Showing 1,065 Figures appeared in four volumes of hand-tinted aquatints (1827–38) and now ranks among the most famous and prized books of the world. It was followed by The Viviparous Quadrupeds of America (1845–8), which was completed by his son John Woodhouse Audubon (1812–62) after the master's sight failed in 1846.

Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t3.000143>

This exhibit included the 47 framed prints of birds and quadrupeds from the folio editions in the Archives Gallery, HL 301; and The Quadrupeds of North America, volumes I, II, and III, 1854 edition were available for viewing in HL 301A.

American Souslik Meadow Mouse – Texas Meadow Mouse Plate No. CXLVII	American Ptarmigan Plate No. 300	Arctic Blue Bird Plate No. 136	Baltimore Oriole or Hang – Nest Plate No. 217	Band – tail dove or pigeon Plate No. 279
Blue Heron Plate No. 372	Blue Mountain Warbler Plate No. 98	Buffel – Headed Duck Plate No. 408	Camas Rat Plate No. CXLII	Canada Goose Plate No. 376
Carolina Turtle Dove Plate No. 286	Chestnut – Collared Lark Bunting Plate No. 154	Common American Deer Plate No. LXXXI	Common American Gull – Ringed Bill Gull Plate No. 446	Common American Partridge Plate No. 289
Common Pine Finch Plate No. 199	Common Tern Plate No. 433	Cougar Plate No. XCVII	Harris Marmot Squirrel – California Meadow Mouse Plate No. CLIV	Hudson Bay Squirrel – Chickasee Red Squirrel Plate No. XIV
Jumping Mouse Plate No. LXXXV	Long – Legged Sandpiper Plate No. 334	Mallard Plate No. 385	Nashville Swamp Warbler Plate No. 113	Nuttall’s Hare Plate No. XCIV
Nuttall’s Whip Poor Will Plate No. 495	Oregon Flying Squirrel Plate No. XV	Oregon Snow Bird Plate No. 168	Plumed Partridge Plate No. 291	Prong-Horned Antelope Plate No. LXXVIII
Red and White Shouldered Marsh Blackbird Plate No. 214	Red – Backed Sandpiper Plate No. 332	Red – Bellied Squirrel Plate No. XXXVII	Red – Cockaded Woodpecker Plate No. 264	Rose – Breasted Long Grosbeak Plate No. 205
Roseate Tern Plate No. 437	Ruffed Grouse Plate No. 239	Sooty Tern Plate No. 432	Swamp Sparrow Plate No. 175	Townsend’s Rocky Mountain Hare Plate No. III
	Townsend’s Shrew Mole Plate No. CXLV	Trumpeter Swan Plate No. 382	White – Footed Mouse Plate No. XL
	Wilson’s Meadow Mouse Plate No. XLV	Wilson’s Snipe - Common Snipe Plate No. 350	Wood Duck – Summer Duck Plate No. 391

LOCATION: 3rd floor Archive Gallery and Archive Reading Room
Curator: Jerrie Lee Parpart

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