rhamphotheca:
Yellow-Breasted Chat (Icteria virens), John James Audubon
- Study for Havell pl. 137, 1829. Watercolor, graphite, pastel, black chalk, gouache, white lead pigment, and black ink with selective glazing on paper, laid on card; 29 5/16 x 21 1/16 in. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society.
(via: Wired Science)
An Audubon bird illustration. A full edition of ‘Birds of America’ hides somewhere in Paisley Museum….maybe if we are lucky we’ll see it one day.
