Audubon: Early Drawings
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008 No Comments »
In 1785, Jean Jacques Audubon was born in Haiti, the illigitimate son of a French naval officer and his mistress. Audubon immigrated to the United States at age 18 (anglicizing his name to John James Audubon), and almost immediately began to study its ornithology, hoping to illustrate the birds he observed in a more realistic […]
