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The Birds of America by John James Audubon

January 25 – March 2, 1969
Ground Floor, Central Gallery

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Mallard Duck, 1834, hand-colored etching and aquatint on Whatman paper, Gift of Mrs. Walter B. James, 1945.8.221

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: This selection of 70 prints came from the unbound double-elephant folio in the collection of the National Gallery, a gift of Mrs. Walter B. James of New York in 1946.

Attendance: 34,179

Audubon, John James
American, 1785 - 1851