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Smew or White Nun from the portfolio Birds of America
John James Audubon1835
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Durham, United States
This example from Birds of America, a large-scale compilation of 435 prints by naturalist John James Audubon and printed in England by Robert Havell, Jr., provides a sample of Audubon’s ambitious program to document all the birds of the United States.
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- Title: Smew or White Nun from the portfolio Birds of America
- Creator: John James Audubon
- Creator Birth Place: Les Cayes, Haiti
- Date Created: 1835
- Location: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Physical Dimensions: 26 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (66.7 × 56.2 cm)
- Type: Print
- Publisher: Printed by Robert Havell Jr., British, 1793–1878 and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Rights: © Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Medium: Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching on paper
- Art Form: Print
- Credit Line: Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Gift of the Richard B. Anderson Family Foundation. Image courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove in Audubon, Pennsylvania, and the Montgomery County Audubon Collection.
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