Collections Online

Blue Heron

Blue Heron Lithograph
Image 1 of 1

To order an image, navigate to the full
display and click "request this image"
on the blue toolbar.

Lithograph by J. T. Bowen after drawing by J. J. Audubon

Image: 10.5 cm x 21.4 cm; whole page: 16.23 cm x 26.3 cm.

No. 75,  plate 372 (opposite page 148) in Birds of America, volume VI, by J. J. Audubon.


    Choose an alternate description of this item written for these projects:
  • Main description

[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

John James Audubon's drawings for The Birds of America (1827-1838) are among the most famous ever printed. This reproduction of Audubon's "Blue Crane or Heron" by lithographer J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia was printed for Volume 6 of the smaller, more affordable edition of Audubon's original work.