AUDUBON, John James, Plate CCXVI. Wood Ibis Natural History Prints and to have ended his

and to have ended his career as a highly regarded botanical artist in Elizabethan London

The watercolors Robert completed under Gaston d’Orleans and then Louis XIV for the royal collection fed the interest and provided the inspiration for the great masters of botanical and ornithological art who followed: Jean Joubert

also known as Gilles Robert de Vaugondy

The Hudson River appears as the "Riviere des trettes

Fremont's Squirrel

AUDUBON, John James, Plate CCXVI. Wood Ibis Natural History Prints and to have ended hisAUDUBON, John James (1785 1851) Wood Ibis, Plate 216 Aquatint engraving with original hand color London: Robert Havell, 1827 1838 37 1 4" x 25" sheet One of Audubon's Genius Icons. "As soon as they have discovered a place abounding in fish, they dance as it were all through it, until the water becomes thick with mud stirred from the bottom by their feet." Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831 John James Audubon is without rival as the most