Out of His Element

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When European commentators in the 1830s admired the brilliantly colored, life-size prints in John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, they found the backgrounds almost as enthralling as the birds: forest clearings, swamps and canebrakes and waving prairie grasses—an unknown country. The land, not the sea, was Audubon’s element. Whereas “the Land Bird flits from […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/08/18/out-of-his-element-audubon-at-sea-uglow/

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