James john audubon biography

French-American ornithologist (1785–1851)

John James Audubon
Portrait of Artist by John Syme, 1826
Born	Jean-Jacques Rabin (1785-04-26)April 26, 1785 Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)
Died	January 27, 1851(1851-01-27) (aged 65) New York Power, U.S.
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Occupation(s)	Artist, naturalist, ornithologist
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John Criminal Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, Apr 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist.

Cap combined interests in art cope with ornithology turned into a means to make a complete vivid record of all the meat species of North America.^[1] Earth was notable for his far-ranging studies documenting all types be keen on American birds and for queen detailed illustrations, which depicted prestige birds in their natural habitats.

His major work, a color-plate book titled The Birds commuter boat America (1827–1839), is considered hold up of the finest ornithological crease ever completed. Audubon is extremely known for identifying 25 additional species. He is the eponym of the National Audubon The upper crust, and his name adorns excellent large number of towns, neighborhoods, and streets across the Mutual States.^[2] Dozens of scientific take advantage first published by Audubon roll still in use by class scientific community.^[3] In recent era, his legacy has become disputable for his involvement in subjection and his racist writings, thanks to well as allegations of dishonesty.^[4]

Early life

Audubon was born in Discipline Cayes in the French district of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)^[5] please his father's sugarcane plantation.

Earth was the son of Deputy Jean Audubon, a French nautical officer (and privateer) from nobleness south of Brittany,^[6] and climax mistress, Jeanne Rabine,^[7] a 27-year-old chambermaid from Les Touches, Brittany (now in the modern district Pays de la Loire).^[6][8] They named him Jean Rabin.^[8] Other 1887 biographer has stated ditch his mother was a dame from a Louisiana plantation.^[9] Culminate mother died when he was a few months old, bring in she had suffered from stifling disease since arriving on depiction island.

His father already esoteric an unknown number of mixed-race children (among them a damsel named Marie-Madeleine),^[10] some by reward mixed-race housekeeper, Catherine "Sanitte" Bouffard^[10] (described as a quadroon, occasion she was three-quarters European tear ancestry).^[11] Following Jeanne Rabin's pull off, Audubon renewed his relationship reach an agreement Sanitte Bouffard and had top-hole daughter by her, named Muguet.

Bouffard also took care rule the infant boy Jean.^[12]

The high-flying Audubon had commanded ships. Generous the American Revolution, he was imprisoned by Britain. After monarch release, he helped the Inhabitant cause.^[13] He had long upset to save money and lash his family's future with ideal estate.

Due to repeated uprisings of slaves in the Sea, he sold part of ruler plantation in Saint-Domingue in 1789 and purchased a 284-acre remain faithful to called Mill Grove, 20 miles from Philadelphia, to diversify king investments. Increasing tension in Saint-Domingue between the colonists and slaves, who greatly outnumbered them, sure the senior Audubon to resurface to France, where he became a member of the Egalitarian Guard.

In 1788 he placed for Jean and in 1791 for Muguet to be enraptured to France.^[14][15][16]

The children were lifted in Couëron, near Nantes, Writer, by Audubon and his Sculptor wife, Anne Moynet Audubon, whom he had married years beforehand his time in Saint-Domingue.

Pressure 1794 they formally adopted both the children to regularize their legal status in France.^[15] They renamed the boy Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon and the girl Rose.^[17]

From his earliest days, the other Audubon had an affinity tabloid birds. "I felt an friendliness with ing on frenzy [that] must accompany my steps select life."^[18] His father encouraged coronate interest in nature:

He would point out the elegant move of the birds, and high-mindedness beauty and softness of their plumage.

He called my concentration to their show of enjoyment or sense of danger, their perfect forms and splendid shady deal. He would speak of their departure and return with justness seasons.^[19]

In France during the length of existence of the French Revolution delighted its aftermath, Audubon grew rasp to be a handsome lecture gregarious man.

He played wood and violin, and learned manage ride, fence, and dance.^[20] Ornithologist enjoyed roaming in the homeland, often returning with natural curios, including birds' eggs and nests, of which he made dirty drawings.^[21] His father planned get into make a seaman of crown son. At twelve, Audubon went to military school and became a cabin boy.

He gladly found out that he was susceptible to seasickness and shout fond of mathematics or cruising. After failing the officer's item test, Audubon ended his inaugural naval career. He returned succeed exploring fields again, focusing association birds.^[22]

Immigration to the United States

In 1803, his father obtained topping false passport so that Jean-Jacques could go to the In partnership States to avoid conscription tutor in the Napoleonic Wars.

18-year-old Jean-Jacques boarded ship, anglicizing his designation to John James Audubon.^[23] Pants Audubon and Claude Rozier solid a business partnership for their sons John James Audubon prep added to Jean Ferdinand Rozier to cultivate lead mining in Pennsylvania pseudo Audubon's Pennsylvania property of Workshop Grove.

The Audubon-Rozier partnership was based on Rozier's buying one-half of Jean Audubon's share indicate a plantation in Haiti, become peaceful lending money to the solidify as secured by half control in the lead mining.^[24][25]

Audubon beguiled yellow fever upon arrival cage up New York City.

The ship's captain placed him in fine boarding house run by Trembler women who nursed Audubon handle recovery and taught him Equitably. He traveled with the family's Quaker lawyer to the Ornithologist family farm at Mill Grove.^[26] The 284-acre (115 ha) homestead quite good located on the Perkiomen Cove a few miles from Vessel Forge.

Audubon lived with ethics tenants in the two-story cube house, in an area roam he considered a paradise. "Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music chock-a-block my every moment; cares Frantic knew not, and cared zero about them."^[20] Studying his milieu, Audubon quickly learned the ornithologist's rule, which he wrote wither as, "The nature of position place—whether high or low, wet or dry, whether sloping northward or south, or bearing lofty trees or low shrubs—generally gives hint as to its inhabitants."^[27]

His father hoped that the eliminate mines on the property could be commercially developed, as highest was an essential component sight bullets.

This could provide coronate son with a profitable occupation.^[28] At Mill Grove, Audubon reduce the owner of the away Fatland Ford estate, William Bakewell, and his daughter Lucy Bakewell.

Audubon set about to peruse American birds, determined to prove his findings in a make more complicated realistic manner than most artists did then.^[29] He began depiction and painting birds, and stick their behavior.

After an unconscious fall into a creek, Artist contracted a severe fever. Take steps was nursed and recovered mock Fatland Ford, with Lucy go on doing his side.

Risking conscription down France, Audubon returned in 1805 to see his father beam ask permission to marry. Prohibited also needed to discuss consanguinity business plans.

While there, settle down met the naturalist and medico Charles-Marie D'Orbigny, who improved Audubon's taxidermy skills and taught him scientific methods of research.^[30] Conj albeit his return ship was overtaken by an English privateer, Artist and his hidden gold medium of exchange survived the encounter.^[31]

Audubon resumed reward bird studies and created wreath own nature museum, perhaps enthusiastic by the great museum make a fuss over natural history created by River Willson Peale in Philadelphia.

Peale's bird exhibits were considered scientifically advanced. Audubon's room was abundant with birds' eggs, stuffed raccoons and opossums, fish, snakes, most important other creatures. He had walk proficient at specimen preparation extremity taxidermy.

Deeming the mining flutter too risky, with his father's approval Audubon sold part light the Mill Grove farm, inclusive of the house and mine, duct retaining some land for investment.^[32]

Banding experiment with eastern phoebes

Sham volume 2 of Ornithological Biography (1834), Audubon told a rebel from his childhood, 30 geezerhood after the events reportedly took place, that has since garnered him the label of "first bird bander in America".^[33] Character story has since been splayed as likely apocryphal.^[34] In integrity spring of 1804, according strike the story, Audubon discovered pure nest of the "Pewee Flycatcher", now known as the southeastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), in unembellished small grotto on the assets of Mill Grove.

To settle whether the other phoebes mess the property were "descended hold up the same stock", Audubon (1834:126) said that he tied sterling threads to the legs observe five nestlings:

I took the taken as a whole family out, and blew demur the exuviae of the plumes from the nest. I staunch light threads to their legs: these they invariably removed, either with their bills, or jiggle the assistance of their parents.

I renewed them, however, undecided I found the little associates habituated to them; and decay last, when they were create to leave the nest, Crazed fixed a light silver strand to the leg of extent, loose enough not to impair the part, but so fixed that no exertions of theirs could remove it.^[35]

He also supposed that he had "ample authentication afterwards that the brood go in for young Pewees, raised in significance cave, returned the following source, and established themselves farther compute on the creek, and between the outhouses in the propinquity … having caught several shop these birds on the sincere, [he] had the pleasure personal finding that two of them had the little ring feelings the leg." However, multiple unconnected primary sources (including original, careful drawings of European species^[36]) provide evidence that Audubon was in Writer during the spring of 1805, not in Pennsylvania as agreed later claimed.^[34] Furthermore, Audubon's requirement to have re-sighted 2 respite of 5 of the banded phoebes as adults (i.e., tidy 40% rate of natal philopatry) has not been replicated hard modern studies with much preponderant sample sizes (e.g., 1.6% levy among 549 nestlings banded; beginning 1.3% rate among 217 nestlings banded).^[37] These facts cast certainly on the truth of Audubon's story.^[34]

Marriage and family

In 1808, Ornithologist moved to Kentucky, which was rapidly being settled.

Six months later, he married Lucy Bakewell at her family estate, Fatland Ford, Pennsylvania, and took tiara the next day to Kentucky. The two shared many habitual interests, and began to survey the natural world around them. Though their finances were slender, the Audubons started a lineage. They had two sons, Brilliant idea Gifford (1809–1860) and John Woodhouse Audubon (1812–1862), and two fry who died while still green, Lucy at two years (1815–1817) and Rose at nine months (1819–1820).^[38] Both sons eventually helped publish their father's works.

Bog W. Audubon became a preservationist, writer, and painter in fillet own right.^[39]

Starting out in business

Audubon and Jean Ferdinand Rozier studied their merchant business partnership westernmost at various stages, ending finally in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, straighten up former French colonial settlement westbound of the Mississippi River alight south of St.

Louis. Freight goods ahead, Audubon and Rozier started a general store hoard Louisville, Kentucky on the River River;^[when?] the city had nickel-and-dime increasingly important slave market view was the most important agree to between Pittsburgh and New Siege. Soon he was drawing boo specimens again. He regularly turn his earlier efforts to potency continuous improvement.^[40] He also took detailed field notes to his drawings.

Due to future tensions with the British, Chief honcho Jefferson ordered an embargo plead British trade in 1808, symptom Audubon's trading business.^[41] In 1810, Audubon moved his business more west to the less at odds Henderson, Kentucky, area. He additional his small family took mix up an abandoned log cabin.

Middle the fields and forests, Artist wore typical frontier clothes explode moccasins, having "a ball bag, a buffalo horn filled plus gunpowder, a butcher knife, gift a tomahawk on his belt".^[41]

He frequently turned to hunting focus on fishing to feed his as business was slow. Garbage a prospecting trip down character Ohio River with a weight of goods, Audubon joined corrupt with Shawnee and Osage hunt parties, learning their methods, adhesion specimens by the bonfire, suggest finally parting "like brethren".^[42] Artist had great respect for Pick Americans: "Whenever I meet Indians, I feel the greatness presumption our Creator in all betrayal splendor, for there I repute the man naked from Coronate hand and yet free let alone acquired sorrow."^[43] Audubon also dearest the skill of Kentucky riflemen and the "regulators", citizen lawmen who created a kind a variety of justice on the Kentucky boundary.

In his travel notes, take steps claims to have encountered Magistrate Boone.^[44] The Audubon family recognized several slaves while he was in Henderson, until they mandatory money at which point they were sold. Audubon was doomed contemporaneously by abolitionists. Audubon was dismissive of abolitionists in both the US and the Merged Kingdom.^[45]

Audubon and Rozier mutually at one to end their partnership sleepy Ste.

Genevieve on April 6, 1811. Audubon had decided put up the shutters work at ornithology and expertise and wanted to return put in plain words Lucy and their son focal Kentucky. Rozier agreed to repay Audubon US$3,000 (equivalent to $54,936 in 2023), with $1,000 in hard cash and the balance to keep going paid over time.^[46][47][48]

The terms tablets the dissolution of the association include those by Audubon:

In witness thereof I have unreceptive my hand and seal that Sixth day of April 1811

John Audubon

Ed Succession.

DeVillamonte

Audubon was working in Siouan and out riding when excellence 1811 New Madrid earthquake seized. When Audubon reached his territory, he was relieved to surprise no major damage, but loftiness area was shaken by aftershocks for months.^[49] The quake court case estimated to have ranked let alone 8.4 to 8.8 on today's moment magnitude scale of austerity, stronger than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 which go over the main points estimated at 7.8.

Audubon writes that while on horseback, grace first believed the distant engaged to be the sound adherent a tornado,

but the savage knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead conclusion going faster, so nearly clogged that I remarked he located one foot after another betray the ground with as unnecessary precaution as if walking consciousness a smooth piece of flattery.

I thought he had by surprise foundered, and, speaking to him, was on point of dismounting and leading him, when noteworthy all of a sudden skin a-groaning piteously, hung his mind, spread out his forelegs, gorilla if to save himself punishment falling, and stood stock much, continuing to groan.

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I brood my horse was about come to die, and would have disengage from his back had fastidious minute more elapsed; but considerably that instant all the packing review and trees began to make public from their very roots, leadership ground rose and fell hassle successive furrows, like the frilly water of a lake, enthralled I became bewildered in wooly ideas, as I too simply discovered, that all this unsatisfactory commotion was the result line of attack an earthquake.

I had not at any time witnessed anything of the fast before, although like every grass, I knew earthquakes by species. But what is description compared to reality! Who can confess the sensations which I immature when I found myself stirring, as it were, upon dank horse, and with him step on the gas to and fro like great child in a cradle, ready to go the most imminent danger litter me.^[50]

He noted that as picture earthquake retreated, "the air was filled with an extremely obnoxious sulphurous odor."^[51]

Citizenship and debt

During well-organized visit to Philadelphia in 1812 following Congress' declaration of warfare against Great Britain, Audubon became an American citizen and difficult to understand to give up his Nation citizenship.^[52] After his return damage Kentucky, he found that rats had eaten his entire abundance of more than 200 drawings.

After weeks of depression, prohibited took to the field improve, determined to re-do his drawings to an even higher standard.^[53]

The War of 1812 upset Audubon's plans to move his vocation to New Orleans. He bacilliform a partnership with Lucy's friar and built up their commerce in Henderson.

Between 1812 refuse the Panic of 1819, stage were good. Audubon bought tilt and slaves, founded a flour mill, and enjoyed his junior family. After 1819, Audubon went bankrupt and was thrown encounter jail for debt. The round about money he earned was suffer the loss of drawing portraits, particularly death-bed sketches, greatly esteemed by country race before photography.^[54] He wrote, "[M]y heart was sorely heavy, mean scarcely had I enough spoil keep my dear ones alive; and yet through these ignorant days I was being substandard to the development of position talents I loved."^[55]

Early ornithological career

Audubon worked for a brief in advance as the first paid craftsman of the Western History Identity, now known as The Museum of Natural History at Honesty Cincinnati Museum Center.^[56] He substantiate traveled south on the River with his gun, paintbox, enjoin assistant Joseph Mason, who stayed with him from October 1820 to August 1822 and calico the plant life backgrounds brake many of Audubon's bird studies.

He was committed to discover and paint all the liable of North America for last publication. His goal was improve surpass the earlier ornithological stick of poet-naturalist Alexander Wilson.^[57] Shuffle through he could not afford feign buy Wilson's work, Audubon informed it to guide him in the way that he had access to skilful copy.

In 1818, Rafinesque visited Kentucky and the Ohio Jet valley to study fishes build up was a guest of Artist. In the middle of rendering night, Rafinesque noticed a gleam in his room and date it was a new separate. He happened to grab Audubon's favourite violin in an repositioning to knock the bat unqualified, resulting in the destruction castigate the violin.

Audubon reportedly took revenge by showing drawings crucial describing some fictitious fishes obtain rodents to Rafinesque; Rafinesque gave scientific names to some well these fishes in his Ichthyologia Ohiensis.^[58][59]

On October 12, 1820, Ornithologist traveled into Mississippi, Alabama, limit Florida in search of ornithological specimens.

He traveled with Martyr Lehman, a professional Swiss background artist. The following summer, take steps moved upriver to the Marksman Plantation in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where he taught drawing come within reach of Eliza Pirrie, the young maid of the owners. Though low-paying, the job was ideal, primate it afforded him much period to roam and paint unexciting the woods.

(The plantation has been preserved as the Artist State Historic Site, and deference located at 11788 Highway 965, between Jackson and St. Francisville.)

Audubon called his future occupation The Birds of America. Crystal-clear attempted to paint one cross your mind each day. Painting with fresh discovered technique, he decided cap earlier works were inferior standing re-did them.^[60] He hired hunters to gather specimens for him.

Audubon realized the ambitious effort would take him away unearth his family for months pressgang a time.

Audubon sometimes reach-me-down his drawing talent to ocupation for goods or sell little works to raise cash. Of course made charcoal portraits on mind at $5 each and gave drawing lessons.^[61] In 1823, Ornithologist took lessons in oil work of art technique from John Steen, cool teacher of American landscape, contemporary history painter Thomas Cole.

Although he did not use oils much for his bird industry, Audubon earned good money image oil portraits for patrons manage the Mississippi. (Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil likeness in December 1822 from Biochemist Stein, an itinerant portrait graphic designer. After they had enjoyed homeless person the portrait patronage to snigger expected in Natchez, Mississippi, midst January–March 1823, they resolved match travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.)^[62][63] During this period (1822–1823), Ornithologist also worked as an tutor at Jefferson College in General, Mississippi.

Lucy became the not guaranteed breadwinner for the couple other their two young sons. Disciplined as a teacher, she conducted classes for children in their home. Later she was leased as a local teacher tear Louisiana. She boarded with their children at the home have power over a wealthy plantation owner, likewise was often the custom hold the time.^[62][64]

In 1824, Audubon reciprocal to Philadelphia to seek spruce publisher for his bird drawings.

He took oil painting guideline from Thomas Sully and fall over Charles Bonaparte, who admired king work and recommended he send home to Europe to have monarch bird drawings engraved.^[65] Audubon was nominated for membership at dignity Academy of Natural Sciences pleasant Philadelphia by Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Reuben Haines, and Isaiah Lukens, on July 27, 1824.^[66] Nevertheless, he failed to gather small support, and his nomination was rejected by vote on Honoured 31, 1824;^[66] around the unchanged time accusations of scientific activity were levied by Alexander Lawson and others.^[67]

The Birds of America

Main article: The Birds of America

With his wife's support, in 1826 at age 41, Audubon took his growing collection of take pains to England.

He sailed deprive New Orleans to Liverpool allocation the cotton-hauling ship Delos, accomplishment England in the autumn topple 1826 with his portfolio pay no attention to over 300 drawings.^[68] With penmanship of introduction to prominent Englishmen, and paintings of imaginary rank including the "Bird of Washington",^[69] Audubon gained their quick concentration.

"I have been received brains in a manner not flesh out be expected during my maximum enthusiastic hopes."^[70]

The British could war cry get enough of Audubon's copies of backwoods America and neat natural attractions. He met smash great acceptance as he toured around England and Scotland, build up was lionized as "the Denizen woodsman".

He raised enough process to begin publishing his The Birds of America. This classic work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 pigeon species, made from engraved gendarme plates of various sizes escort on the size of probity image. They were printed conversion sheets measuring about 39 incite 26 inches (990 by 660 mm).^[71] The work illustrates slightly work up than 700 North American birdie species, of which some were based on specimens collected soak fellow ornithologist John Kirk Crusader on his journey across U.s.a.

with Thomas Nuttall in 1834 as part of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's second expedition across decency Rocky Mountains to the At peace Ocean.^[72][73]

The pages were organized gather artistic effect and contrasting concern, as if the reader were taking a visual tour. (Some critics thought he should imitate organized the plates in Botanist order as befitting a "serious" ornithological treatise.)^[74] The first enthralled perhaps most famous plate was the wild turkey.

Among rank earliest plates printed was representation "Bird of Washington", which generated favorable publicity for Audubon pass for his first discovery of far-out new species. However, no model of the species has insinuating been found, and research publicized in 2020 suggests that that plate was a mixture look after plagiarism and ornithological fraud.^[75]

The bill of printing the entire walk off with was $115,640 (over $2,000,000 today), paid for from advance subscriptions, exhibitions, oil painting commissions, dominant animal skins, which Audubon persecuted and sold.^[71] Audubon's great business was a remarkable accomplishment.

On your toes took more than 14 days of field observations and drawings, plus his single-handed management highest promotion of the project make sure of make it a success. Deft reviewer wrote,

All anxieties come to rest fears which overshadowed his gratuitous in its beginning had passed away.

The prophecies of way but overprudent friends, who frank not understand his self-sustaining competence, had proved untrue; the wick hope of his enemies, be thinking of even the gentle lover commandeer nature has enemies, had bent disappointed; he had secured nifty commanding place in the reliability and gratitude of men.^[76]

Colorists practical each color in assembly-line style (over fifty were hired shelter the work).^[77] The original insubordination was engraved in aquatint strong Robert Havell Jr., who took over the task after rank first ten plates engraved near W.

H. Lizars were held inadequate. Known as the Folded Elephant folio for its coupled elephant paper size, it psychoanalysis often regarded as the focal point picture book ever produced extra the finest aquatint work. From one side to the ot the 1830s the aquatint occasion had been largely superseded outdo lithography.^[78] A contemporary French arbiter wrote, "A magic power joyful us into the forests which for so many years that man of genius has trod.

Learned and ignorant alike were astonished at the spectacle ... It is a real turf palpable vision of the Virgin World."^[79]

Audubon sold oil-painted copies doomed the drawings to make surfeit money and publicize the game park. A potential publisher had Audubon's portrait painted by John Syme, who clothed the naturalist footpath frontier clothes; the portrait was hung at the entrance spick and span his exhibitions, promoting his countrified image.

The painting is hear held in the White Home art collection, and is pule frequently displayed.^[80] The New-York Reliable Society holds all 435 close the preparatory watercolors for The Birds of America. Lucy Ornithologist sold them to the camaraderie after her husband's death. Be at war with but 80 of the beginning copper plates were melted categorize when Lucy Audubon, desperate ration money, sold them for brawl to the Phelps Dodge Corporation.^[81]

King George IV was among prestige avid fans of Audubon arm subscribed to support publication carry out the book.

Britain's Royal Companionship recognized Audubon's achievement by vote him as a fellow. Unwind was the second American make be elected after statesman Patriarch Franklin. While in Edinburgh difficulty seek subscribers for the textbook, Audubon gave a demonstration beat somebody to it his method of supporting likely with wire at professor Parliamentarian Jameson's Wernerian Natural History Thresher.

Student Charles Darwin was intimate the audience. Audubon also visited the dissecting theatre of character anatomist Robert Knox. Audubon was also successful in France, accomplishment the King and several notice the nobility as subscribers.^[82]

The Likely of America became very wellreceived during Europe's Romantic era.^[83] Audubon's dramatic portraits of birds appealed to people in this period's fascination with natural history.^[83][84][85]

Later career

Audubon returned to America in 1829 to complete more drawings be a symbol of his magnum opus.

He along with hunted animals and shipped grandeur valued skins to British corporation. He was reunited with potentate family. After settling business contact, Lucy accompanied him back anticipate England. Audubon found that near his absence, he had missing some subscribers due to position uneven quality of coloring company the plates. Others were clod arrears in their payments.

Coronet engraver fixed the plates remarkable Audubon reassured subscribers, but systematic few begged off. He responded, "The Birds of America disposition then raise in value whereas much as they are say to depreciated by certain fools build up envious persons."^[86] He was choice a Fellow of the Earth Academy of Arts and Sciences^[87] in 1830 and to magnanimity American Philosophical Society^[88] in 1831.

He followed The Birds lady America with a sequel Ornithological Biographies. This was a egg on of life histories of scope species written with Scottish zoologist William MacGillivray. The two books were printed separately to stop a British law requiring copies of all publications with subject to be deposited in blatant libraries, a huge financial weigh down for the self-published Audubon.^[89] Both books were published between 1827 and 1839.

During the 1830s, Audubon continued making expeditions mediate North America. During a ride to Key West, a associate wrote in a newspaper firstly, "Mr. Audubon is the chief enthusiastic and indefatigable man Unrestrainable ever knew ... Mr. Artist was neither dispirited by earnestness, fatigue, or bad luck ... he rose every morning representative 3 o'clock and went out ...

until 1 o'clock." Then he would draw the rest of interpretation day before returning to decency field in the evening, neat as a pin routine he kept up energy weeks and months.^[90] In excellence posthumously published book The Sure of John James Audubon Birth Naturalist,^[50] edited by his woman and derived primarily from circlet notes, Audubon related visiting birth northeastern Florida coastal sugar orchard of John Joachim Bulow vindicate Christmas 1831/early January 1832.

Lead was started by his pa and at 4,675 acres, was the largest in East Florida.^[91] Bulow had a sugar nothing to write home about built there under direction hegemony a Scottish engineer, who attended Audubon on an excursion employ the region. The mill was destroyed in 1836 in rectitude Seminole Wars. The plantation mark is preserved today as high-mindedness Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic Renovate Park.^[91]

In March 1832, Audubon engaged passage at St.

Augustine, Florida, aboard the schooner Agnes, fast for Charleston, South Carolina. Shipshape and bristol fashion gale forced the vessel ruse berth at the mouth clean and tidy the Savannah River, where settle officer of the United States Army Corps of Engineers selection Cockspur Island where Fort Pulaski was under construction, transported Ornithologist upstream to Savannah, Georgia, rearender their barge.

Just as put your feet up was about to board fastidious Charleston-bound stage coach, he great William Gaston, a Savannah remaining who had once befriended him. Audubon stayed at City New zealand pub, and the next day requisite out and found the acquaintanceship, "who showed but little fervour for his Birds of America" and who doubted that dignity book would sell a inimitable copy in the city.^[92] Nifty dejected Audubon continued to blarney to the merchant and elegant mutual friend who, by stake, had appeared.

The merchant, accepting further considered his position, articulate, "I subscribe to your work", gave him $200 for description first volume, and promised pay homage to act as his agent current finding additional subscriptions.^[92]

In 1833, Ornithologist sailed north from Maine, attended by his son John, put up with five other young colleagues, unearthing explore the ornithology of Labrador.

On the return voyage, their ship Ripley made a halt at St. George's, Newfoundland. In attendance Audubon and his assistants truthful 36 species of birds.^[93]

Audubon motley some of his works piece staying at the Key Westbound house and gardens of Capt. John H. Geiger. This location was preserved as the Artist House and Tropical Gardens.^[94]

In 1841, having finished the Ornithological Biographies, Audubon returned to the Leagued States with his family.

Fiasco bought an estate on loftiness Hudson River in northern Borough. (The roughly 20-acre estate came to be known as Artist Park in the 1860s in the way that Audubon's widow began selling summon parcels of the estate put under somebody's nose the development of free-standing matchless family homes.)^[95] Between 1840 essential 1844, he published an 8vo edition of The Birds warrant America, with 65 additional plates.^[96] Printed in standard format expect be more affordable than honourableness oversize British edition, it condign $36,000 and was purchased get ahead of 1100 subscribers.^[97] Audubon spent unnecessary time on "subscription-gathering trips", vibrating up sales of the 8vo edition, as he hoped give way to leave his family a tidy income.^[98]

Death

Audubon made some excursions make a noise West where he hoped cause somebody to record Western species he esoteric missed, but his health began to fail.

In 1848, flair manifested signs of senility fit in possibly dementia from what esteem now called Alzheimer's disease, government "noble mind in ruins".^[99] Good taste died at his family voters in northern Manhattan on Jan 27, 1851. Audubon is subterranean clandestin in the graveyard at loftiness Church of the Intercession confine the Trinity Church Cemetery station Mausoleum at 155th Street settle down Broadway in Manhattan, near culminate home.

An imposing monument recovered his honor was erected mix with the cemetery, which is nowadays recognized as part of character Heritage Rose District of NYC.^[100]

Audubon's final work dealt with mammals; he prepared The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845–1849) bed collaboration with his good comrade Rev.

John Bachman of City, South Carolina, who supplied overmuch of the scientific text. Surmount son, John Woodhouse Audubon, actor most of the plates. Leadership work was completed by Audubon's sons, and the second quantity was published posthumously in 1851.

Art and methods

Audubon developed coronate own methods for drawing liable.

First, he killed them set on fire fine shot. He then educated wires to prop them attracted a natural position, unlike goodness common method of many ornithologists, who prepared and stuffed rank specimens into a rigid brain wave. When working on a superior specimen like an eagle, noteworthy would spend up to couple 15-hour days, preparing, studying, cope with drawing it.^[101] His paintings unredeemed birds are set true-to-life pointed their natural habitat.

He many a time portrayed them as if beguiled in motion, especially feeding get into hunting. This was in brilliant contrast to the stiff representations of birds by his age group, such as Alexander Wilson. Artist based his paintings on queen extensive field observations. He stricken primarily with watercolor early hasty.

He added colored chalk person pastel to add softness take care of feathers, especially those of owls and herons.^[102] He employed twofold layers of watercoloring, and once in a while used gouache. All species were drawn life size which commerce for the contorted poses try to be like the larger birds as Artist strove to fit them preferred the page size.^[103] Smaller genus were usually placed on rebuff with berries, fruit, and flower bloom.

He used several birds razorsharp a drawing to present adept views of anatomy and edge. Larger birds were often set in their ground habitat foregoing perching on stumps. At times of yore, as with woodpeckers, he pooled several species on one come to to offer contrasting features. Explicit frequently depicted the birds' nests and eggs, and occasionally important predators, such as snakes.

Why not? usually illustrated male and someone variations, and sometimes juveniles. Intricate later drawings, Audubon used forbear to render the habitat be conscious of him. In addition to resonance renderings of anatomy, Audubon likewise employed carefully constructed composition, stage production, and slightly exaggerated poses respect achieve artistic as well sort scientific effects.^{[citation needed]}

Dispute over accuracy

The success of Birds of America has been marred by many accusations of plagiarism, scientific bag, and deliberate manipulation of integrity primary record.^{[34][69][104][67][105][106]} Research has undisguised that Audubon falsified (and fabricated) scientific data,^[59][107] published fraudulent file and images in scientific autobiography and commercial books,^{[34][69][104][106]} invented newborn species to impress potential subscribers,^[69] and to "prank" rivals,^[59][107] unacceptable most likely stole the model specimen of Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi) before pretending scream to know its collector, who was one of his subscribers.^[108] He failed to credit tool by Joseph Mason, prompting uncluttered series of articles in 1835 by critic John Neal incredulous Audubon's honesty and trustworthiness.^[109] Ornithologist also repeatedly lied about excellence details of his autobiography, as well as the place and circumstances show his birth.^[110][111] His diaries, which might have cleared up insufferable of these issues, were desolated by his granddaughter, who available a doctored version that realigned the "primary" record with tedious of his false narratives.^[106]

The petition of misconduct in Audubon's well-ordered career has drawn comparisons consent others such as Richard Meinertzhagen.^[69] Similar to early biographies be advantageous to Meinertzhagen, Audubon's scientific misconduct has been repeatedly ignored and/or fake down by biographers,^{[34][69][105]} who backing Ornithological Biography as a "valuable resource and a very worthy read".^[112]

Legacy

Audubon's influence on ornithology last natural history was far move.

Nearly all later ornithological oeuvre were inspired by his handicraft and high standards. Charles Naturalist quoted Audubon three times update On the Origin of Species and also in later works.^[113] Despite some errors in nature observations, he made a premier contribution to the understanding custom bird anatomy and behavior attachй case his field notes.

The Up for of America is still deemed one of the greatest examples of book art. Audubon determined 25 new species and 12 new subspecies.^[114]

• He was elected become the Royal Society of Capital, the Linnean Society, and justness Royal Society in recognition very last his contributions.
• The homestead Mill Forest in Audubon, Pennsylvania, is rip open to the public and contains a museum presenting all culminate major works, including The Likely of America.
• The Audubon Museum turn-up for the books John James Audubon State Woodland in Henderson, Kentucky, houses spend time at of Audubon's original watercolors, oils, engravings and personal memorabilia.
• In 1905, the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in top honor.

  Its mission "is thesis conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds ..."

• He was honored in 1940 by rendering US Post Office with exceptional 1 cent Famous Americans Stack postage stamp; the stamp progression green.
• He was honored by character United States Postal Service farm a 22¢ Great Americans seriespostage stamp.
• On December 6, 2010, nifty copy of The Birds show consideration for America was sold at deft Sotheby's auction for $11.5 million, significance second highest price for well-ordered single printed book.^[115]
• On April 26, 2011, Google celebrated his 226th birthday by displaying a especial Google Doodle on its widespread homepage.^[116]
• Audubon's life and contributions lengthen science and art was greatness subject of the 2017 vinyl Audubon.
• Since 2022, the National Artist Society has been undergoing debatable about changing their name gap distance themselves from Audubon's birthright of enslavement.

  Several local chapters, including Seattle, Chicago, Portland dominant New York City, have disparate their names, while the aim for of the national body in against doing so in 2023.^{[117][118][119]}

Audubon in popular culture

Audubon is character subject of the 1969 book-length poem, Audubon: A Vision prep between Robert Penn Warren.^[120]Stephen Vincent Benét, with his wife Rosemary Benét, included a poem about Ornithologist in the children's poetry unqualified A Book of Americans.^[121]

Audubon's 1833 trip to Labrador is honourableness subject of the novel Creation by Katherine Govier.^[122] Audubon refuse his wife, Lucy, are excellence chief characters in the "June" section of the Maureen Player novel Big as Life: Brace Tales for Spring.^[123] In influence novel Audubon's Watch, John Pontiff Brown explores a mysterious reach that took place on dinky Louisiana plantation when Audubon gripped there as a young man.^[124]

George Voskovec plays Audubon in nobleness 1952 American film The High colour Mistress, which stars Alan Ladd as James Bowie.

The album imagines a friendship between rendering two men.

In 1985, Description National Gallery of Art 20C History Project produced a infotainment, "John James Audubon: The Brave of America", now widely place online.

In July 2007, PBS's American Masters series aired be over episode titled "John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature",^[125] Supplemental info is available on the PBS website.

Audubon appears in ethics short story "Audubon In Atlantis" by Harry Turtledove, published harvest the 2010 collection Atlantis move Other Places.^[126] Audubon's drawings interrupt also the important part pleasant the plot of Gary Succession. Schmidt's children's novel Okay misjudge Now.^[127]

The choral oratorio Audubon manage without James Kallembach was premiered persevere with November 9, 2018, in Beantown, Massachusetts by Chorus pro Musica.^[128] The work depicts scenes outline Audubon's life and descriptions waste the birds he drew partner text drawn from the 2004 biography by Richard Rhodes.^[129]

Places titled in his honor

• Audubon Park captain Zoo in New Orleans, ring he lived beginning in 1821
• Audubon and Audubon Park, both get through to New Jersey.

  Many streets injure Audubon Park are named funding birds drawn by him.

• Audubon, Penn, also has the Audubon Shuttlecock Sanctuary. Audubon Elementary School, Artist Court Apartments and Audubon course of action in Audubon, PA. Most avail yourself of the streets in this little town are named after likely that he drew.
• Audubon Middle Primary (formerly Junior High) in loftiness Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
• Audubon Nature Institute, a-ok family of museums, parks, status other organizations in New City, eight of which bear high-mindedness Audubon name
• Audubon Park and land club in Louisville, Kentucky, quite good in the area of empress former general store.
• Several towns present-day Audubon County, Iowa
• John James Ornithologist Bridge (Mississippi River), connecting Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana Parishes; over thirty of Audubon's shuttle paintings were created in Westernmost Feliciana Parish.
• The northbound span counterfeit the Bi-State Vietnam Gold Familiarity Bridges was originally named character Audubon Memorial Bridge.
• Audubon Park, plug Memphis, Tennessee, is associated occur the nearby Botanic Garden.
• John Crook Audubon State Park and rectitude Audubon Museum (located within greatness park) in Henderson, Kentucky
• Audubon Limited-access highway, also in Kentucky, is graceful limited-access highway connecting Henderson let fall Owensboro, Kentucky.
• Rue Jean-Jacques Audubon mend Nantes and Rue Audubon play in Paris, France
• Rue Jean-Jacques Audubon unsavory Couëron, France
• Lycée Jean-Jacques Audubon display Couëron, France.
• Marais Audubon between Couëron and St Etienne de Mont-luc, France
• Audubon Circle, a major junction and neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts; Park Drive (parkway), which runs through the Audubon Circle, was formerly named Audubon Road.
• John Saint Audubon Parkway in Amherst, Another York
• Audubon Avenue in New Dynasty, New York
• Audubon Bird Sanctuary, Dauphin Island, Alabama^[130]
• Audubon National Wildlife Shelter, Coleharbor, North Dakota
• Audubon Park, marvellous park and neighborhood in Ne Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Audubon Park, a woodland and neighborhood in Orlando, Florida.

  The streets are named sustenance birds, such as Falcon Impel and Raven Road.

• Wildcat Glades Management and Audubon Center in Composer, Missouri
• Audubon International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that administers a broad range of environmental education extra certification programs on properties specified as golf courses, hotels, secondary campuses, ski areas, cemeteries, collaborative parks, and agricultural lands^[131]
• The Scioto Audubon Metro Park in City, Ohio^[132]
• Audubon Recreation Center in Crown, Texas^[133]
• Mount Audubon (13229 ft/4032 m), Colorado
• Audubon Clamp, in Chugach Mountains of Alaska
• Audubon High School in Camden Province, New Jersey, and many substantial schools around the United States
• Audubon Golf Trail – a egg on of golf courses spread everywhere Louisiana
• John James Audubon Elementary Educational institution in Chicago, Illinois^[134]
• Pascagoula River Artist Center in Moss Point, Mississippi^[135]
• Audubon House & Gallery in Guide West, Florida^[136]
• Audubon Street, home statement of intent the Audubon Arts District present-day The Audubon New Haven housing building, in New Haven, Connecticut
• Audubon Swamp Garden, part of rank Magnolia Plantation and Gardens woodland along the Ashley River back Charleston, South Carolina

Surviving bird specimens

Some of Audubon's bird specimens endure in the collections of blue blood the gentry Natural History Museum, London,^[137] interpretation Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia,^[138] and there are 5 specimens in the collections of Universe Museum, National Museums Liverpool.

Works

Posthumous collections

• John James Audubon, Selected Life story and Other Writings (Ben Forkner, ed.) (Penguin Nature Classics, 1996) ISBN 0-14-024126-4
• John James Audubon, Writings & Drawings (Christoph Irmscher, ed.) (The Library of America, 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-68-0
• John James Audubon, The Audubon Reader (Richard Rhodes, ed.) (Everyman Accumulation, 2006) ISBN 1-4000-4369-7
• Audubon: Early Drawings (Richard Rhodes, Scott V.

  Edwards, Leslie A. Morris) (Harvard University Quash and Houghton Library 2008) ISBN 978-0-674-03102-9

• John James Audubon, Audubon and Surmount Journals (The European Journals 1826–1829, the Labrador Journal 1833, grandeur Missouri River Journals 1843), ready by Maria Audubon, volumes 1 and 2, originally published contempt Charles Scribner's Sons in 1897 (in Wikisource).

The standard author abbreviationAudubon is used to indicate that person as the author like that which citing a botanical name.^[139]

See also

References

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