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约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦John James Audubon

 约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦(Jean拉宾出生;1785年4月26日- 1月27日,1851年)是美国人鸟类学家,博物学家,画家他是著名的为他的广泛的研究记录所有类型的美国鸟类和他详细的插图描绘了鸟类在它们的自然栖息地。他的主要工作,彩板》一书美国的鸟类(1827 - 1839),被认为是最优秀的鸟类作品的完成。奥杜邦确定25个新物种。约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦是美国著名的画家、博物学家,他绘制的鸟类图鉴被称作“美国国宝”。奥杜邦一生留下了无数的画作,他的每一部作品不仅是科学研究的重要资料,也是不可多得的艺术杰作,他先后出版了《美洲鸟类》和《美洲的四足动物》两本画谱。其中的《美洲鸟类》曾被誉为19世纪最伟大和最具影响力的著作。奥杜邦的作品对后世野生动物绘画产生了深刻的影响,同时,在普通公众中,奥杜邦的作品也有着很大的影响力。详细作品资料可参考美术网下载库和作品库板块内其大量作品。

  • 中文名约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦
  • 外文名John James Audubon
  • 性别
  • 国籍美国
  • 出生地海地
  • 出生日期1785年4月26日
  • 逝世日期1851年1月27日
  • 职业美术家、博物学家、猎手
  • 主要成就《美洲鸟类》曾被誉为19世纪最伟大和最具影响力的著作
  • 代表作品《美洲鸟类》,《美洲的四足动物》,《北美野鸟图谱》
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早期的生活

奥杜邦出生在 莱凯 在法国殖民地 圣多明格 (现在 海地 [在他父亲的 甘蔗 种植园 。他是中尉让奥杜邦的儿子,一个法国海军军官(和 海盗 )从南 布列塔尼 和他的情妇Jeanne Rabine,   a即使从27岁 LES接触 ,布列塔尼犬(现在在现代区域 卢瓦尔河地区 )。  他们给孩子起名叫Jean Rabin。 他的母亲在他几个月大的去世,她遭受了热带病因为到达岛上。他的父亲已经有了一个未知的数 混合种族 孩子们(其中一个叫Marie Madeleine的女儿), 一些被他 混血儿 housekeeper凯瑟琳“sanitte bouffard”(描述为 混血儿 ,意味着她是四分之三的欧洲血统)。  Jeanne Rabin死后,奥杜邦重申了他与Sanitte Bouffard的关系,和她有一个女儿,名叫Muguet。Bouffard还照顾婴儿的男孩姬恩。 

奥杜邦吩咐船只。在 美国革命 ,他已经被英国。出狱后,他帮助美国的原因。   他长期致力于节省资金和房地产保护他的家庭的未来。由于在加勒比奴隶动乱,1789年他卖掉了他在圣多明克林的一部分,购买了284英亩的农场被称为 轧机格罗 ,20英里 费城 ,多样化投资。在圣多明克殖民者和非洲奴隶之间日益紧张,他大大超过他们,相信让奥杜邦回到法国,在那里他成为会员 共和国卫队 。1791他安排他的亲生孩子姬恩和Muguet,谁是在血统的白人占多数,被流放在法国交付给他。

孩子们长大 凑ë罗恩 ,近 南特 法国 ,奥杜邦和他的法国妻子Anne Moynet Audubon,他娶了年他在圣多明克的时间之前。1794他们正式收养了他的亲生孩子规范他们的法律地位在法国。  他们改名为男孩Jean Jacques Fougè重新奥杜邦和玫瑰的女孩。当奥杜邦,18岁,上了船1803移民到美国,他改变了他的名字,一个英国化的形式:约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦。

从他最早的日子里,奥杜邦了亲鸟。”我觉得他们…一个亲密近乎狂热的[是]要陪我走过一生。” 他的父亲鼓励他对大自然的兴趣:

他指出,鸟的优雅的运动,和美丽的羽毛柔软。他要我注意自己的快乐或危险感,其完美的形式和盛装。他会说他们的出发和返回的季节。 

在法国混乱的年 法国革命 和它的后果,年轻的奥杜邦长成了一个英俊的男人。他演奏长笛和小提琴,并学会了骑马, 栅栏 ,和舞蹈。 一个伟大的人,他喜欢在森林里漫游,经常回归自然的好奇心,包括鸟蛋和巢,其中他粗图。  他父亲打算让他儿子一个水手。十二岁的奥杜邦去军事学校,成为一个男孩。他很快发现他容易晕船,不喜欢数学或导航。军官的资格考试失败后,奥杜邦结束了他的早期海军生涯。他高高兴兴地回到坚实的地面和探索的领域,专注于鸟。 

移民到美国

 

板41 美国的鸟 约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦,描绘 松鸡

1803,他的父亲获得了假护照,奥杜邦可以去美国逃避兵役的 拿破仑战争 。让奥杜邦和Claude Rozier安排了一个商业伙伴为他们的儿子到宾夕法尼亚追求。这是根据Claude Rozier的购买让-奥杜邦是海地一家农场的一半份额,并贷款给合作担保的铅开采一半兴趣在轧机格罗夫奥杜邦的财产。

奥杜邦抓住了 黄热病 在抵达纽约。船长把他放在寄宿公寓由 贵格会教徒 女他们帮助奥杜邦恢复和教他英语,包括贵格会的形式用“你”和“你”,否则那古老的。他带着全家的贵格会的律师奥杜邦家庭农场 轧机格罗  The 284-acre (115 ha) homestead is located on the 珀基奥门溪 从几英里 福吉谷

奥杜邦生活在两层楼高的石头房子的房客,在一个地区,他认为是一个天堂。”打猎、钓鱼、画画、音乐占据了我的每一刻;我不知道,和毫无在意他们。”   研究了周围环境,奥杜邦很快就学会了鸟类学家的统治,他写下,“自然的地方,无论是高或低,潮湿或干燥,无论北方或南方或轴承倾斜,高大的树木或低矮的灌木一般会提示它的居民。” 

 

板1 美国的鸟 约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦描绘了一个野火鸡。

他的父亲希望财产上的铅矿山可以商业化发展,如铅子弹的一个重要组成部分。这将为他的儿子与一个有利可图的职业。   在轧机格罗夫,奥杜邦遇到了老板附近的地产“fatland福特”,William Bakewell和他的女儿露西。他结婚五年的露西之后。两个年轻人分享了很多共同的利益,而且早就开始花时间在一起,他们周围的自然世界的探索。

奥杜邦着手研究美国鸟,决定来说明他的研究结果在一个更现实的方式比大多数艺术家呢。   他开始进行第一次知道 鸟类环志 在大陆,他把纱的腿 东菲比 并确定他们年后回到同一个筑巢的一年。  他也开始画画,画鸟,并记录他们的行为。意外掉进河后,奥杜邦发高烧。他养病在fatland福特恢复,露西在他身边。

冒着在法国征兵,奥杜邦又在1805看到父亲请求批准结婚。他也需要讨论家庭业务计划。在那里,他遇到了博物学家和医生查尔斯玛丽多比内,他改进了奥杜邦的 动物标本 技能和教他科学的研究方法。虽然他回船被一个英语 海盗 ,奥杜邦和他的隐藏的金币在遇到。 

奥杜邦恢复他的鸟的研究,创建了自己的自然博物馆,也许灵感来自伟大的自然历史博物馆了 皮尔 在费城。皮尔的鸟表现出被认为是先进的科学。奥杜邦的房间里满是鸟蛋,把浣熊和负鼠、鱼、蛇和其他动物。他在和动物标本剥制标本的制备成为精通。

认为挖掘创业风险太大,他的父亲奥杜邦批准出售的轧机格罗夫农场的一部分,包括房子和我的房子。他保留一些土地给投资。  他去纽约学进出口贸易,希望能找到一个业务支持他和露西的婚姻。保护Bakewell先生希望看到建立在一个坚实的职业之前释放他的女儿给他年轻的法国人。

婚姻和家庭

 

露西技术奥杜邦

 

卡罗来纳州的鸽子(现在叫 哀鸽

在1808,奥杜邦搬到肯塔基,并迅速解决。六个月后,他娶了Lucy Bakewell。虽然他们的财政状况脆弱的audubons家庭开始。他们有两个儿子:Victor Gifford(1809–1860)和 约翰先生奥杜邦 (1812–1862);和两个女儿死在年轻的:露西在两年(1815–1817)和玫瑰在九个月(1819–1820)。 [ 29 ] 两家的儿子最终会帮助发布他们的父亲的作品。John W. Audubon成了一个自然主义者,作家和画家在他自己的权利,在1862年鉴接收自己的讣告。 [ 30 ]

开始做生意

奥杜邦和Ferdinand Rozier把他们的生意伙伴方在不同的阶段,最终的结局 STE。芙,密苏里 前法国殖民地,西方的 密西西比河 和南部 路易 。海运货物之前,奥杜邦和Rozier开始了 GENERAL商店 进入 Louisville , Kentucky 俄亥俄河 什么时候? ] 这个城市有一个越来越重要的奴隶市场,是最重要的港口之间 匹兹堡 新奥尔良 。很快,他画的鸟的标本了。他经常烧了他早期的努力力不断提高。   他也做了详细的笔记来记录自己的图纸。

由于不断上升的紧张局势与英国,总统 杰佛逊 订购1808个在英国的贸易禁运,影响奥杜邦的生意。   1810,奥杜邦把他的业务进一步向西缺乏竞争力 亨德森,肯塔基 区域他和他的小家庭带到一个废弃的木屋。在田野和森林,奥杜邦穿着典型的边疆衣服和皮鞋,有“一个球袋,水牛角充满火药味,屠夫的刀,和他带的战斧。” 

他经常把打猎和钓鱼来养活自己的家庭,作为业务是缓慢的。在勘探旅行装载货物的俄亥俄河,奥杜邦加入了 肖尼 奥沙 狩猎聚会,学习他们的方法,用篝火画标本,最后离别的“弟兄”。   奥杜邦一直很尊敬 土著美国人 :“每当我遇到的印度人,我觉得我们的创造者的所有辉煌的伟大,我在那里看到的男人赤裸着从他的手,但没有获得悲伤。”  奥杜邦也很欣赏肯塔基的步兵技能和“监管者”,市民接到谁创造了在肯塔基边境一种正义。在他的游记中,他声称已经遇到 丹尼尔布恩

奥杜邦和埃双方同意在STE结束他们的伙伴关系。Genevieve 1811年4月6日。奥杜邦已经决定在鸟类学和艺术方面的工作,想回到露西和他们的儿子在肯塔基。埃同意支付奥杜邦3000美元(相当于~ 120000美元2010美元),以1000美元的现金和支付余额超过时间。 

合伙的解散条件包括那些由奥杜邦:

我奥杜邦,有这一天,双方同意与Ferdinand Rozier、溶解和永远封闭奥杜邦和埃合伙和公司,并从Ferdinand Rozier支付和笔记,我对奥杜邦和Rozier的后期公司的商品和债务的部分全额说收到了,我的John Audubon说一个公司上述特此发布永远退出声称所有及任何的兴趣我已经或可能在手上的股票和债务,由于奥杜邦和埃派后期公司,转移和集对Ferdinand Rozier说,我的所有权利、头衔、索赔和商品的兴趣,由于奥杜邦和听见的晚公司商品和债务,并特此授权并让他为我的一部分,收集相同的以任何方式任何私下或通过法律或衡平法据此宣称他绝对和唯一的所有者和所有货物的合法主人的西服或套装,本公司上述商品和债务,完全是他们货物和道具已故的奥杜邦和埃公司性质。

为了证明我的手,四月1811这第六天的密封

约翰·奥杜伯恩

D. devillamonte ED

 

约翰詹姆斯奥杜邦House,恒基兆业,肯塔基州。

奥杜邦是在密苏里工作时,在 1811马德里大地震 击中。当奥杜邦到他家后,他发现没有什么大碍,松了一口气,但面积大为震惊 余震 几个月。  地震估计的学者有排名从8.4到8.8在今天的 李希特量表 的严重程度,比 三藩1906级地震 这是估计为7.8。奥杜邦写道,在马背上,他首先认为是一声遥远的隆隆声 龙卷风

但是动物比我更了解什么是即将到来的,而不是走得更快,所以几乎停止了,我说他把一只脚在地面的另一与多的预防措施如果走在一块光滑的冰。我以为他突然沉没,和他说话,在拆卸和领先的他,当他一下子掉a-groaning pieteously,耷拉着脑袋,展开他的前腿,好像要救自己脱离,和一动不动地站着,继续呻吟。我以为我的马死了,会有来自他的背部有一分钟时间;但那一瞬间,所有的灌木和树木开始从根部,地面上升和下降在连续的沟,像竖起的水湖,我变得困惑我的想法,我也清楚地发现,这一切可怕的骚动是地震的结果。我从未见过这样的事情之前,虽然和所有人一样,我知道地震的描述。但什么是比较现实的描述!谁能告诉我经历的时候,我发现自己摇摆的感觉,好像是在我的马,和他来来往往像在摇篮里的孩子,与身边最迫在眉睫的危险。

他指出,由于地震撤退,“空气中弥漫着硫磺气味极其讨厌。”

 

公民与债务

 

由约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦承担的肉桂。

1812战对阵大不列颠国会的声明之后,在访问费城期间,奥杜邦成为美国公民,他不得不放弃法国国籍。 他回到肯塔基后,他发现,老鼠吃了他的整个收藏的200多张图纸。经过几周的 抑郁 ,他现场了,决心重新做他的图纸到一个更高的标准。 

这个 1812年战争 打乱了奥杜邦的计划将自己的业务 新奥尔良 。他成立了一个露西的兄弟合伙建立了他们的贸易在亨德森。1812和之间 恐慌1819 时间是好的。奥杜邦买了土地和 奴隶 ,创办了一个面粉厂,和喜欢他的大家庭。1819后,奥杜邦宣告破产,债务入狱。小他挣到的钱是从肖像画,特别是临终的草图,极大的尊重的国家民俗摄影之前。 他写道,“[ M ]我的心非常沉重,因为我刚够维持我的亲人活着;然而,在那些黑暗的日子里我被带到我爱的人才的发展。” 

职业生涯早期的鸟类

 

奥杜邦, 金鹰 4、1833–

在辛辛那提短暂停留的工作在一个博物馆的博物学家和标本后,奥杜邦向南与他的枪,密西西比颜料盒,和助理 约瑟夫·梅森 ,谁和他呆在一起,从十月1820至8月1822画奥杜邦的许多鸟类研究植物的生活背景。他致力于发现和油漆所有的北美洲鸟类的最终出版。他的目标是超越早期鸟类工作诗人自然主义 亚历山大·威尔逊 虽然他买不起Wilson的工作,奥杜邦用它来指导他时,他已获得一份。

1818年, 拉菲内克 访问了肯塔基和俄亥俄河流域研究鱼类和做客奥杜邦。半夜的时候,注意到他的房间封闭式蝙蝠,认为它是一个新的物种。他碰巧抓住奥杜邦的小提琴在用力敲拍下来,造成破坏的小提琴。据说奥杜邦把复仇的图纸和描述一些虚构的鱼和鼠总科;封闭式给科学的名字有些鱼类在他的 ichthyologia ohiensis

1820年10月12日,奥杜邦前往 密西西比 阿拉巴马 ,和 佛罗里达 在鸟类标本的搜索。他曾与 乔治雷曼 ,一个专业的瑞士风景画家。接下来的夏天,他搬到上游的奥克利Feliciana教区,路易斯安那 他在那里教,画了Eliza Pirrie,业主的女儿。虽然工资低,工作是理想的,因为它给他太多的时间去漫游和油漆在树林里。(种植一直保存为 奥杜邦国家历史遗址 ,和位于11788公路965之间 杰克逊 弗朗西斯维尔 。)

奥杜邦称,他今后的工作 美国的鸟 。他试图描绘每一天的一页。新发现的工艺画,他决定他的早期作品不如重新做。 他聘请猎人收集标本,他。奥杜邦意识到这个雄心勃勃的项目将带他远离家人的几个月的时间。

奥杜邦有时用他的绘画天赋的货物贸易或销售的小作品筹集现金。他用木炭肖像画在每5美元的需求,给了教训。1823奥杜邦把课从John Steen的油画技法,一个美国景观师,和历史的画家 托马斯-科尔 。虽然他没有为他的鸟工作油多用,奥杜邦赚了大钱的油画肖像沿密西西比的顾客。(奥杜邦的账户显示,他从Jacob Stein,到1822十二月油画巡回肖像画家。他们喜欢所有的肖像的赞助会在 密西西比河行驶, 一月,在–1823三月,他们决定一起去旅行作为巡视肖像艺术家。) 在这一时期(1822–1823),奥杜邦还担任讲师 杰弗逊学院 进入 华盛顿

露西成了这对夫妇和他们的两个年幼儿子的稳定养家糊口。作为一个训练有素的教师,她在家为孩子进行班级。后来她被聘为路易斯安那当地的一个老师。她寄宿在一个富有的种植园主家庭子女,经常被自定义的时候。

1824,奥杜邦回到费城去寻找他的鸟图发布。尽管他遇到 托马斯萨利 ,一个很著名的肖像画家和有价值的盟友,奥杜邦拒绝出版。他已经获得了一些城市的在领先的科学家的敌意 对费城自然科学院 。他从Sully油画课了 波拿马 他欣赏自己的作品,并推荐他到欧洲去他的鸟图刻。

美国的鸟

主要文章: 美国鸟类(书)

 

从板块 美国的鸟 ,具有 象牙喙啄木鸟

妻子的支持,1826在41岁时,奥杜邦带着他的成长的收集工作,英国。他是从新奥尔良来 利物浦 在棉花运输船 提洛 ,到达英国1826年秋与他的投资组合超过300图纸。  与著名的英国人的介绍信,奥杜邦得到了他们的注意。”我已经收到了在这里的方式不可能在我热情最高的希望。” 

 

美洲火烈鸟 奥杜邦,约翰J,布鲁克林博物馆。

 

美国的乌鸦 约翰J奥杜邦,布鲁克林博物馆。

英国人无法获得足够的他的形象,边远地区的美国自然景点。他会见了伟大的接受他游览了英国和苏格兰,并被奉为“美国的樵夫。”他筹到足够的钱开始出版他的 美国的鸟. This monumental work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates of various sizes depending on the size of the image. They were printed on sheets measuring about 39 by 26 inches (660 mm).   这项工作包含略多于700的北美鸟类。

网页被组织的艺术效果和对比的兴趣,如果读者在视觉之旅。(一些批评者认为他应该在Linnaean举办板为适合“严肃”的鸟类学专著。) 第一个也是最著名的野火鸡板。

打印整个工作的成本是115640美元(超过今天的2000000美元),支付从提前订阅,展览,油画艺术委员会主任,和动物皮,奥杜邦猎杀和出售。   奥杜邦的伟大的工作是一个了不起的成就。它花了超过14年的野外观察和图纸,加上他一手管理和推广的项目才能成功。一位评论家写道,

所有的焦虑和恐惧,盖过了他的工作起步已经去世了。但朋友的overprudent预言,谁也不懂他的自给自足的能源,已被证明是不真实的;敌人的恶意的希望,即使大自然的温柔情人的敌人,已经失望;他获得了尊重和感恩的人指挥的地方。

染料应用每种颜色在装配线的方式(超过五十被录用的工作)。   原来的版本是刻在 飞尘 罗伯特 哈弗尔 ,Jr.,谁接手任务的第一十片刻后 W. H. Lizars 被认为是不够的。被称为双象对折后 双象 纸张的大小,它通常被视为最伟大的图画书有史以来最好的版画作品。到了19世纪30年代,精雕细刻的过程在很大程度上取代了 光刻 当代法国评论家写道,“一种神奇的力量把我们进入森林,这么多年来这种天赋的人已经走了。学会和无知一样在眼镜…惊讶的是真实的、可触及的视觉的新世界。”

 

绿鹭 约翰J奥杜邦,布鲁克林博物馆。

奥杜邦卖油画的图纸副本来赚更多的钱和宣传书。一位出版商给他画肖像的John Syme,谁穿衣服的博物学家在前沿。肖像挂在他的展览的入口处,宣传他的质朴的形象。(这幅画现在举行的 白宫 艺术收藏品,and is not常显示。)。 [ 63 ] 这个 纽约历史学会 持有435的筹备水彩为 美国的鸟 。Lucy Audubon卖给社会丈夫死后。但80的原铜板被融化时,Lucy Audubon急需钱,卖废品的 菲尔普斯道奇公司

国王 乔治四世 是狂热的粉丝,奥杜邦在和订阅支持本书的出版。 伦敦 皇家社会 通过选举他为人认可奥杜邦的成就。他是美国政治家当选后 本杰明富兰克林 。而在 爱丁堡 寻找书的订户,奥杜邦示范了他的护鸟丝教授的方法 罗伯特·詹姆森 wernerian自然历史协会 。学生 查尔斯达尔 就在观众。奥杜邦还参观了解剖室的解剖学家 罗伯特诺克斯 。奥杜邦是在法国打好,获得了国王和贵族的用户数。

美国的鸟 欧洲的浪漫主义时期非常流行。奥杜邦的戏剧人物鸟类呼吁在这一时期的迷恋自然史的人。

后来的职业生涯

 

在绍斯伯里的河边,弯曲的奥杜邦中心,CT。

 

奥杜邦,白 矛隼

奥杜邦回到了美国,在1829完成了他的巨著更图纸。他也猎取野兽,运值皮肤的英国朋友。他与他的家人团聚。结算业务后,露西陪他回英国。奥杜邦发现,在他不在的时候,他已经失去了一些用户由于板着色质量参差不齐。其他人在支付拖欠。他的雕刻机固定板和奥杜邦向订户,但几个推辞了。他说,“'美国'鸟儿将提高价值,他们现在贬值一定的傻瓜和嫉妒的人一样多。” 他当选为院士 美国艺术与科学院 和1830年。 

他跟着 美国的鸟 一个续集 鸟类的传记 。这是一个集合中的每一个物种的生活史的书写 苏格兰 鸟类学家 该威廉 。这两本书单独打印避免英国法律要求所有出版物的副本与文本被存放在图书馆的自助出版的皇冠,奥杜邦一个巨大的财政负担。  这两本书分别是1827和1839之间出版的。

在19世纪30年代,奥杜邦继续在北美洲考察。在去 韦斯特, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, "Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew...Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck...he rose every morning at 3 o'clock and went out...until 1 o'clock." Then he would draw the rest of the day before returning to the field in the evening, a routine he kept up for weeks and months.  在他死后出版的书, 他的妻子编辑主要来自他的笔记,奥杜邦参观圣诞1831 /一月初1832 John Joachim Bulow佛罗里达州东北海岸的糖料种植园。这是由他的父亲和4675亩,是佛罗里达州东部最大的。Bulow有一个制糖厂建有一个苏格兰工程师的指导下,陪同奥杜邦在该地区旅行。工厂被摧毁的1836 塞米诺尔战争 。种植园网站是保留至今的 那个种植园遗址州立历史公园

1833,奥杜邦从缅因州向北航行,伴随着他的儿子约翰,和其他五个年轻的同事,探讨 鸟类学 属于 拉布拉多 。在voyage的回报,他们的船上 里普利 在圣乔治停了下来, 纽芬兰岛 。奥杜邦和他的助手们记录了36种鸟类。

奥杜邦画了一些作品,在John H. Geiger上尉的基韦斯特的房子和花园。本网站保存为 奥杜邦的房子和热带花园 。 

 

露西奥杜邦C 1870

1841、完成 鸟类传记 ,奥杜邦回到美国与他的家人。他买了一个房地产 哈德逊河 在曼哈顿北部。(大约20英亩的地产来到被称为 奥杜邦公园 在19世纪60年代,当奥杜邦的遗孀开始出售的独立的单一家庭住宅开发的地产包裹。)。1842年,他发表了一篇文章 八开本 美国的鸟 65个板块。打印标准格式的要比大的英国版更加实惠,它赚了36000美元,1100的用户购买。   奥杜邦在“订阅收集旅行”多少时间,招徕的开本版销售,他希望给他的家人留下一个可观的收入。 

死亡

奥杜邦做了一些游览了西部,他希望西方物种记录他错过了,但他的健康状况开始恶化。1848,他表现龙钟老态或可能 痴呆 从什么是现在所谓的 阿尔茨海默 “在废墟,他高贵的心灵。” [ 79 ] 他死在他的家在曼哈顿北部,1851年1月27日。奥杜邦被葬在墓地的 教会的代祷 三一教堂公墓 在第一百五十五街和百老汇的陵墓 曼哈顿 ,他家附近。雄伟的纪念碑竖立在他的荣誉是墓地,这是目前公认的一部分 遗产区纽约玫瑰 。 

奥杜邦最后的工作是 哺乳类动物 他准备; 北美胎生四足兽 (1卷1846)与他的好朋友合作 牧师John Bachman 属于 查尔斯顿,南卡罗来纳州 ,谁提供更多的科学文本。他的儿子,John Woodhouse Audubon,吸引了大多数的板。这项工作是由奥杜邦的儿子和女婿完成,第二卷是在死后才出版的1851。

艺术与方法

 

奥杜邦,约翰杰姆斯~鹑(弗吉尼亚鹧鸪),画了1825。公布板76、1829

奥杜邦提出了自己的方法画鸟。首先,他杀死了他们使用精细的镜头。然后他用线来支撑他们的自然位置,不像许多鸟类学家常用的方法,准备和谁把标本切成一个僵硬的姿势。像鹰的主要标本的工作时,他会花上四天15个小时,准备,学习,和画。他画的鸟是真实的生活在它们的自然栖息地。他经常描绘他们仿佛看见了运动,尤其是饲养或打猎。这是形成鲜明对比的是由他的同时代人鸟僵硬的表现,如 亚历山大·威尔逊 。奥杜邦通过他的画在他的广泛的实地观察。

 

从相邻的图像细节

他的工作主要是水彩早期。他把柔软的羽毛添加彩色粉笔或蜡笔,尤其是那些猫头鹰和苍鹭。 [ 82 ] 他利用watercoloring多层,有时用 水粉画 。所有的物种都是画真人大小的占较大的鸟类的扭曲的姿势,奥杜邦努力适应他们在页面大小。较小的物种通常被放置在枝浆果、水果、花朵。他用几只鸟在绘图目前所有观点解剖和翅膀。较大的鸟类被安置在地面的栖息地或坐在树桩。有时,像啄木鸟,他结合几个物种在一页上提供对比功能。他经常描绘鸟的鸟巢和鸟蛋,偶尔的天敌,如蛇。他通常说明男性和女性的变化,有时青少年。在以后的图纸,奥杜邦的助手为他提供栖息地。除了解剖忠实的渲染,奥杜邦也用精心构造的组成、戏剧、和略为夸张的姿势来达到艺术和科学的影响。

 

遗产

 

J.J.奥杜邦在以后的岁月里,C 1850

奥杜邦对鸟类和自然历史的影响是深远的。几乎所有后来的鸟类作品的灵感来自他的艺术性和高标准。 查尔斯达尔 引用奥杜邦的话三次 在物种起源 并在后来的作品。  尽管在野外观测的一些错误,他对鸟的解剖和行为的理解作出了重要的贡献通过他的田野笔记。 美国的鸟 仍然被认为是一个艺术图书的最伟大的例子。奥杜邦发现了25个新种和12个新亚种。

奥杜邦是1969本书的诗,主题为“奥杜邦:一个视觉” 沃伦 ·文森特benét ,与他的妻子Rosemary BenéT,包括在儿童诗的书关于奥杜邦的一首诗 一本书的美国人

奥杜邦1833次来Labrador是这部小说的主题 创造 凯瑟琳Govier   奥杜邦和他的妻子,露西,在“六月”部分的主要特点 莫琳·霍华德 小说 大生活:三春季的故事 在小说 奥杜邦的手表 约翰格雷戈瑞布朗 探讨了一个神秘的死亡,发生在路易斯安那的种植园时,奥杜邦曾有一个年轻人。

在他的荣誉命名的地方

 

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英文版本

 John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologistnaturalist, andpainter. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.

Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)[1] on his father's sugarcane plantation. He was the son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer) from the south of Brittany,[2] and his mistress Jeanne Rabine,[3] a 27-year-old chambermaid from Les Touches, Brittany (now in the modern region Pays de la Loire).[2][4] They named the boy Jean Rabin.[4] His mother died when the boy was a few months old, as she had suffered from tropical disease since arriving on the island. His father already had an unknown number of mixed-race children (among them a daughter named Marie-Madeleine),[5] some by his mulatto housekeeper, Catherine "Sanitte" Bouffard[5] (described as a quadroon, meaning she was three-quarters European in ancestry).[6] Following Jeanne Rabin's death, Jean Audubon renewed his relationship with Sanitte Bouffard and had a daughter by her, named Muguet. Bouffard also took care of the infant boy Jean.[7]

The senior Audubon had commanded ships. During the American Revolution, he had been imprisoned by Britain. After his release, he helped the American cause.[8] He had long worked to save money and secure his family's future with real estate. Due to slave unrest in the Caribbean, in 1789 he sold part of his plantation in Saint-Domingue and purchased a 284-acre farm called Mill Grove, 20 miles from Philadelphia, to diversify his investments. Increasing tension in Saint-Domingue between the colonists and the African slaves, who greatly outnumbered them, convinced Jean Audubon to return to France, where he became a member of the Republican Guard. In 1791 he arranged for his natural children Jean and Muguet, who was majority-white in ancestry, to be transported and delivered to him in France.[9][10][11]

The children were raised in Couëron, near NantesFrance, by Audubon and his French wife Anne Moynet Audubon, whom he had married years before his time in Saint-Domingue. In 1794 they formally adopted both his natural children to regularize their legal status in France.[10] They renamed the boy Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon and the girl Rose.[12] When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship in 1803 to immigrate to the United States, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.[13]

From his earliest days, Audubon had an affinity for birds. "I felt an intimacy with them...bordering on frenzy [that] must accompany my steps through life."[14] His father encouraged his interest in nature:

He would point out the elegant movement of the birds, and the beauty and softness of their plumage. He called my attention to their show of pleasure or sense of danger, their perfect forms and splendid attire. He would speak of their departure and return with the seasons.[15]

In France during the chaotic years of the French Revolution and its aftermath, the younger Audubon grew up to be a handsome and gregarious man. He played flute and violin, and learned to ride, fence, and dance.[16] A great walker, he loved roaming in the woods, often returning with natural curiosities, including birds' eggs and nests, of which he made crude drawings.[17] His father planned to make a seaman of his son. At twelve, Audubon went to military school and became a cabin boy. He quickly found out that he was susceptible to seasickness and not fond of mathematics or navigation. After failing the officer's qualification test, Audubon ended his incipient naval career. He was cheerfully back on solid ground and exploring the fields again, focusing on birds.[18]

Emigration to the United States[edit]

 

Plate 41 of Birds of America by John James Audubon, depicting ruffed grouse

In 1803, his father obtained a false passport so that Audubon could go to the United States to avoid conscription in the Napoleonic Wars. Jean Audubon and Claude Rozier arranged a business partnership for their sons to pursue in Pennsylvania. It was based on Claude Rozier's buying half of Jean Audubon's share of a plantation in Haiti, and lending money to the partnership as secured by half interest in lead mining at Audubon's property of Mill Grove.[19][20]

Audubon caught yellow fever upon arrival in New York City. The ship's captain placed him in a boarding house run by Quaker women. They nursed Audubon to recovery and taught him English, including the Quaker form of using "thee" and "thou", otherwise then archaic. He traveled with the family's Quaker lawyer to the Audubon family farm Mill Grove.[21] The 284-acre (115 ha) homestead is located on thePerkiomen Creek a few miles from Valley Forge.

Audubon lived with the tenants in the two-story stone house, in an area that he considered a paradise. "Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them."[16] Studying his surroundings, Audubon quickly learned the ornithologist's rule, which he wrote down as, "The nature of the place—whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs—generally gives hint as to its inhabitants."[22]

 

Plate 1 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting a wild turkey.

His father hoped that the lead mines on the property could be commercially developed, as lead was an essential component of bullets. This could provide his son with a profitable occupation.[23] At Mill Grove, Audubon met the owner of the nearby estate "Fatland Ford", William Bakewell, and his daughter Lucy. He was married to Lucy five years later. The two young people shared many common interests, and early on began to spend time together, exploring the natural world around them.

Audubon set about to study American birds, determined to illustrate his findings in a more realistic manner than most artists did then.[24] He began conducting the first known bird-banding on the continent: he tied yarn to the legs of eastern phoebes and determined that they returned to the same nesting spots year after year.[25] He also began drawing and painting birds, and recording their behavior. After an accidental fall into a creek, Audubon contracted a severe fever. He was nursed and recovered at Fatland Ford, with Lucy at his side.

Risking conscription in France, Audubon returned in 1805 to see his father and ask permission to marry. He also needed to discuss family business plans. While there, he met the naturalist and physician Charles-Marie D'Orbigny, who improved Audubon's taxidermy skills and taught him scientific methods of research.[26] Although his return ship was overtaken by an English privateer, Audubon and his hidden gold coins survived the encounter.[27]

Audubon resumed his bird studies and created his own nature museum, perhaps inspired by the great museum of natural history created by Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia. Peale's bird exhibits were considered scientifically advanced. Audubon's room was brimming with birds' eggs, stuffed raccoons and opossums, fish, snakes, and other creatures. He had become proficient at specimen preparation and taxidermy.

Deeming the mining venture too risky, with his father's approval Audubon sold part of the Mill Grove farm, including the house and mine. He retained some land for investment.[28] He went to New York to learn the import-export trade, hoping to find a business to support his marriage to Lucy. The protective Mr. Bakewell wanted to see the young Frenchman established in a solid career before releasing his daughter to him.

Marriage and family[edit]

 

Lucy Bakewell Audubon

 

Carolina pigeon (now called mourning dove)

In 1808, Audubon moved to Kentucky, which was rapidly being settled. Six months later, he married Lucy Bakewell. Though their finances were tenuous, the Audubons started a family. They had two sons: Victor Gifford (1809–1860) and John Woodhouse Audubon (1812–1862); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years (1815–1817) and Rose at nine months (1819–1820).[29] Both sons would eventually help publish their father's works. John W. Audubon became a naturalist, writer, and painter in his own right, receiving his own obituary in an 1862 yearbook.[30]

Starting out in business[edit]

Audubon and Ferdinand Rozier moved their merchant business partnership west at various stages, ending ultimately in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a former French colonial settlement west of the Mississippi River and south of St. Louis. Shipping goods ahead, Audubon and Rozier started ageneral store in Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River;[when?] the city had an increasingly important slave market and was the most important port between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. Soon he was drawing bird specimens again. He regularly burned his earlier efforts to force continuous improvement.[31] He also took detailed field notes to document his drawings.

Due to rising tensions with the British, President Jefferson ordered an embargo on British trade in 1808, adversely affecting Audubon's trading business.[32] In 1810, Audubon moved his business further west to the less competitive Henderson, Kentucky area. He and his small family took over an abandoned log cabin. In the fields and forests, Audubon wore typical frontier clothes and moccasins, having "a ball pouch, a buffalo horn filled with gunpowder, a butcher knife, and a tomahawk on his belt."[32]

He frequently turned to hunting and fishing to feed his family, as business was slow. On a prospecting trip down the Ohio River with a load of goods, Audubon joined up with Shawnee and Osage hunting parties, learning their methods, drawing specimens by the bonfire, and finally parting "like brethren."[33] Audubon had great respect for Native Americans: "Whenever I meet Indians, I feel the greatness of our Creator in all its splendor, for there I see the man naked from His hand and yet free from acquired sorrow."[34] Audubon also admired the skill of Kentucky riflemen and the "regulators", citizen lawmen who created a kind of justice on the Kentucky frontier. In his travel notes, he claims to have encountered Daniel Boone.[35]

Audubon and Rozier mutually agreed to end their partnership at Ste. Genevieve on April 6, 1811. Audubon had decided to work at ornithology and art, and wanted to return to Lucy and their son in Kentucky. Rozier agreed to pay Audubon $3,000 (equivalent to ~$120,000 in 2010 dollars), with $1,000 in cash and the balance to be paid over time.[36][37][38]

The terms of the dissolution of the partnership include those by Audubon:

I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.

In witness thereof I have set my hand and seal this Sixth day of April 1811

John Audubon

Ed D. DeVillamonte

 

John James Audubon house, Henderson, Kentucky.

Audubon was working in Missouri and out riding when the 1811 New Madrid earthquake struck. When Audubon reached his house, he was relieved to find no major damage, but the area was shaken by aftershocks for months.[39] The quake is estimated by scholars to have ranked from 8.4 to 8.8 on today's Richter Scale of severity, stronger than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 which is estimated at 7.8. Audubon writes that while on horseback, he first believed the distant rumbling to be the sound of a tornado,

but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice. I thought he had suddenly foundered, and, speaking to him, was on point of dismounting and leading him, when he all of a sudden fell a-groaning pieteously, hung his head, spread out his forelegs, as if to save himself from falling, and stood stock still, continuing to groan. I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake. I had never witnessed anything of the kind before, although like every person, I knew earthquakes by description. But what is description compared to reality! Who can tell the sensations which I experienced when I found myself rocking, as it were, upon my horse, and with him moving to and fro like a child in a cradle, with the most imminent danger around me.[40]

He noted that as the earthquake retreated, "the air was filled with an extremely disagreeable sulphurous odor."[41]

 

Citizenship and debt[edit]

 

Cinnamon bear by John James Audubon.

During a visit to Philadelphia in 1812 following Congress' declaration of war against Great Britain, Audubon became an American citizen and had to give up his French citizenship.[42] After his return to Kentucky, he found that rats had eaten his entire collection of more than 200 drawings. After weeks of depression, he took to the field again, determined to re-do his drawings to an even higher standard.[43]

The War of 1812 upset Audubon's plans to move his business to New Orleans. He formed a partnership with Lucy's brother and built up their trade in Henderson. Between 1812 and the Panic of 1819, times were good. Audubon bought land and slaves, founded a flour mill, and enjoyed his growing family. After 1819, Audubon went bankrupt and was thrown into jail for debt. The little money he earned was from drawing portraits, particularly death-bed sketches, greatly esteemed by country folk before photography.[44] He wrote, "[M]y heart was sorely heavy, for scarcely had I enough to keep my dear ones alive; and yet through these dark days I was being led to the development of the talents I loved."[45]

Early ornithological career[edit]

 

Audubon, golden eagle, 1833–4

After a short stay in Cincinnati to work as a naturalist and taxidermist at a museum, Audubon traveled south on the Mississippi with his gun, paintbox, and assistant Joseph Mason, who stayed with him from October 1820 to August 1822 and painted the plant life backgrounds of many of Audubon's bird studies. He was committed to find and paint all the birds of North America for eventual publication. His goal was to surpass the earlier ornithological work of poet-naturalist Alexander Wilson.[46] Though he could not afford to buy Wilson's work, Audubon used it to guide him when he had access to a copy.

In 1818 Rafinesque visited Kentucky and the Ohio River valley to study fishes and was a guest of Audubon. In the middle of the night, Rafinesque noticed a bat in his room and thought it was a new species. He happened to grab Audubon's favourite violin in an effort to knock the bat down, resulting in the destruction of the violin. Audubon reportedly took revenge by showing drawings and describing some fictitious fishes and rodents to Rafinesque; Rafinesque gave scientific names to some of these fishes in his Ichthyologia Ohiensis.[47][48]

On October 12, 1820, Audubon traveled into MississippiAlabama, and Florida in search of ornithological specimens. He traveled with George Lehman, a professional Swiss landscape artist. The following summer, he moved upriver to the Oakley Plantation in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where he taught drawing to Eliza Pirrie, the young daughter of the owners. Though low-paying, the job was ideal, as it afforded him much time to roam and paint in the woods. (The plantation has been preserved as the Audubon State Historic Site, and is located at 11788 Highway 965, between Jackson and St. Francisville.)

Audubon called his future work Birds of America. He attempted to paint one page each day. Painting with newly discovered technique, he decided his earlier works were inferior and re-did them.[49] He hired hunters to gather specimens for him. Audubon realized the ambitious project would take him away from his family for months at a time.

Audubon sometimes used his drawing talent to trade for goods or sell small works to raise cash. He made charcoal portraits on demand at $5 each and gave drawing lessons.[50] In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole. Though he did not use oils much for his bird work, Audubon earned good money painting oil portraits for patrons along the Mississippi. (Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist. After they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi, during January–March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.)[51][52] During this period (1822–1823), Audubon also worked as an instructor atJefferson College in Washington, Mississippi.

Lucy became the steady breadwinner for the couple and their two young sons. Trained as a teacher, she conducted classes for children in their home. Later she was hired as a local teacher in Louisiana. She boarded with their children at the home of a wealthy plantation owner, as was often the custom of the time.[51][53]

In 1824, Audubon returned to Philadelphia to seek a publisher for his bird drawings. Though he met Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, Audubon was rebuffed for publication. He had earned the enmity of some of the city's leading scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He took oil painting lessons from Sully and met Charles Bonaparte, who admired his work and recommended he go to Europe to have his bird drawings engraved.[54]

Birds of America[edit]

Main article: Birds of America (book)

 

Plate from Birds of America, featuring theivory-billed woodpecker

With his wife's support, in 1826 at age 41, Audubon took his growing collection of work to England. He sailed from New Orleans to Liverpool on the cotton hauling ship Delos, reaching England in the autumn of 1826 with his portfolio of over 300 drawings.[55] With letters of introduction to prominent Englishmen, Audubon gained their quick attention. "I have been received here in a manner not to be expected during my highest enthusiastic hopes."[56]

 

American flamingo, John J. Audubon, Brooklyn Museum

 

American crow - John J. Audubon, Brooklyn Museum

The British could not get enough of his images of backwoods America and its natural attractions. He met with great acceptance as he toured around England and Scotland, and was lionized as "the American woodsman." He raised enough money to begin publishing his Birds of America. This monumental work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates of various sizes depending on the size of the image. They were printed on sheets measuring about 39 by 26 inches (660 mm).[57] The work contains slightly more than 700 North American bird species.

The pages were organized for artistic effect and contrasting interest, as if the reader were taking a visual tour. (Some critics thought he should have organized the plates in Linnaean order as befitting a "serious" ornithological treatise.)[58] The first and perhaps most famous plate was the wild turkey.

The cost of printing the entire work was $115,640 (over $2,000,000 today), paid for from advance subscriptions, exhibitions, oil painting commissions, and animal skins, which Audubon hunted and sold.[57] Audubon's great work was a remarkable accomplishment. It took more than 14 years of field observations and drawings, plus his single-handed management and promotion of the project to make it a success. A reviewer wrote,

All anxieties and fears which overshadowed his work in its beginning had passed away. The prophecies of kind but overprudent friends, who did not understand his self-sustaining energy, had proved untrue; the malicious hope of his enemies, for even the gentle lover of nature has enemies, had been disappointed; he had secured a commanding place in the respect and gratitude of men.[59]

Colorists applied each color in assembly-line fashion (over fifty were hired for the work).[60] The original edition was engraved in aquatintby Robert Havell, Jr., who took over the task after the first ten plates engraved by W. H. Lizars were deemed inadequate. Known as the Double Elephant folio after its double elephant paper size, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced and the finest aquatint work. By the 1830s, the aquatint process was largely superseded by lithography.[61] A contemporary French critic wrote, "A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod. Learned and ignorant alike were astonished at the spectacle...It is a real and palpable vision of the New World."[62]

 

Green heron - John J. Audubon, Brooklyn Museum

Audubon sold oil-painted copies of the drawings to make extra money and publicize the book. A potential publisher had his portrait painted by John Syme, who clothed the naturalist in frontier clothes. The portrait was hung at the entrance of his exhibitions, promoting his rustic image. (The painting is now held in the White House art collection, and is not frequently displayed.).[63] The New-York Historical Society holds all 435 of the preparatory watercolors for Birds of America. Lucy Audubon sold them to the society after her husband's death. All but 80 of the original copper plates were melted down when Lucy Audubon, desperate for money, sold them for scrap to thePhelps Dodge Corporation.[64]

King George IV was among the avid fans of Audubon and subscribed to support publication of the book. London's Royal Society recognized Audubon's achievement by electing him as a fellow. He was the second American to be elected after statesman Benjamin Franklin. While inEdinburgh to seek subscribers for the book, Audubon gave a demonstration of his method of supporting birds with wire at professorRobert Jameson's Wernerian Natural History Association. Student Charles Darwin was in the audience. Audubon also visited the dissecting theatre of the anatomist Robert Knox. Audubon was a hit in France as well, gaining the King and several of the nobility as subscribers.[65]

Birds of America became very popular during Europe's Romantic era.[66] Audubon's dramatic portraits of birds appealed to people in this period's fascination with natural history.[66][67][68]

Later career[edit]

 

Audubon Center at Bent of the River, in Southbury, CT.

 

Audubon, whitegyrfalcons

Audubon returned to America in 1829 to complete more drawings for his magnum opus. He also hunted animals and shipped the valued skins to British friends. He was reunited with his family. After settling business affairs, Lucy accompanied him back to England. Audubon found that during his absence, he had lost some subscribers due to the uneven quality of coloring of the plates. Others were in arrears in their payments. His engraver fixed the plates and Audubon reassured subscribers, but a few begged off. He responded, " 'The Birds of America' will then raise in value as much as they are now depreciated by certain fools and envious persons."[69] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1830.[70]

He followed Birds of America with a sequel Ornithological Biographies. This was a collection of life histories of each species written with Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray. The two books were printed separately to avoid a British law requiring copies of all publications with text to be deposited in Crown libraries, a huge financial burden for the self-published Audubon.[71] Both books were published between 1827 and 1839.

During the 1830s, Audubon continued making expeditions in North America. During a trip to Key West, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, "Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew...Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck...he rose every morning at 3 o'clock and went out...until 1 o'clock." Then he would draw the rest of the day before returning to the field in the evening, a routine he kept up for weeks and months.[72] In the posthumously published book, The Life of John James Audubon, edited by his wife and derived primarily from his notes, Audubon related visiting the northeastern Florida coastal sugar plantation of John Joachim Bulow for Christmas 1831/early January 1832. It was started by his father and at 4,675 acres, was the largest in East Florida.[73]Bulow had a sugar mill built there under direction of a Scottish engineer, who accompanied Audubon on an excursion in the region. The mill was destroyed in 1836 in the Seminole Wars. The plantation site is preserved today as the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park.[73]

In 1833, Audubon sailed north from Maine, accompanied by his son John, and five other young colleagues, to explore the ornithology ofLabrador. On the return voyage, their ship Ripley made a stop at St. George's, Newfoundland. There Audubon and his assistants documented 36 species of birds.[74]

Audubon painted some of his works while staying at the Key West house and gardens of Capt. John H. Geiger. This site was preserved as theAudubon House and Tropical Gardens.[75]

 

Lucy Audubon c. 1870

In 1841, having finished the Ornithological Biography, Audubon returned to the United States with his family. He bought an estate on theHudson River in northern Manhattan. (The roughly 20-acre estate came to be known as Audubon Park in the 1860s when Audubon's widow began selling off parcels of the estate for the development of free-standing single family homes.).[76] In 1842, he published an octavo edition ofBirds of America, with 65 additional plates. Printed in standard format to be more affordable than the oversize British edition, it earned $36,000 and was purchased by 1100 subscribers.[77] Audubon spent much time on "subscription gathering trips", drumming up sales of the octavo edition, as he hoped to leave his family a sizable income.[78]

Death[edit]

Audubon made some excursions out West where he hoped to record Western species he had missed, but his health began to fail. In 1848, he manifested signs of senility or possibly dementia from what is now called Alzheimer's disease, his "noble mind in ruins."[79] He died at his family home in northern Manhattan on January 27, 1851. Audubon is buried in the graveyard at the Church of the Intercession in the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum at 155th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, near his home. An imposing monument in his honor was erected at the cemetery, which is now recognized as part of the Heritage Rose District of NYC.[80]

Audubon's final work was on mammals; he prepared the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Vol. 1 1846) in collaboration with his good friend Rev John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, who supplied much of the scientific text. His son, John Woodhouse Audubon, drew most of the plates. The work was completed by Audubon's sons and son-in-law, and the second volume was published posthumously in 1851.

Art and methods[edit]

 

Audubon, John James ~ bobwhite (Virginia partridge), painted 1825. Published as Plate 76, 1829

Audubon developed his own methods for drawing birds. First, he killed them using fine shot. He then used wires to prop them into a natural position, unlike the common method of many ornithologists, who prepared and stuffed the specimens into a rigid pose. When working on a major specimen like an eagle, he would spend up to four 15-hour days, preparing, studying, and drawing it.[81] His paintings of birds are set true-to-life in their natural habitat. He often portrayed them as if caught in motion, especially feeding or hunting. This was in stark contrast to the stiff representations of birds by his contemporaries, such as Alexander Wilson. Audubon based his paintings on his extensive field observations.

 

Detail from the adjacent image

He worked primarily with watercolor early on. He added colored chalk or pastel to add softness to feathers, especially those of owls and herons.[82] He employed multiple layers of watercoloring, and sometimes used gouache. All species were drawn life size which accounts for the contorted poses of the larger birds as Audubon strove to fit them within the page size. Smaller species were usually placed on branches with berries, fruit, and flowers. He used several birds in a drawing to present all views of anatomy and wings. Larger birds were often placed in their ground habitat or perching on stumps. At times, as with woodpeckers, he combined several species on one page to offer contrasting features. He frequently depicted the birds' nests and eggs, and occasionally natural predators, such as snakes. He usually illustrated male and female variations, and sometimes juveniles. In later drawings, Audubon used assistants to render the habitat for him. In addition to faithful renderings of anatomy, Audubon also employed carefully constructed composition, drama, and slightly exaggerated poses to achieve artistic as well as scientific effects.

 

Legacy[edit]

 

J.J. Audubon in later years, c. 1850

Audubon's influence on ornithology and natural history was far reaching. Nearly all later ornithological works were inspired by his artistry and high standards. Charles Darwin quoted Audubon three times in On the Origin of Species and also in later works.[83] Despite some errors in field observations, he made a significant contribution to the understanding of bird anatomy and behavior through his field notes. Birds of America is still considered one of the greatest examples of book art. Audubon discovered 25 new species and 12 new subspecies.[84]

Audubon in fiction and poetry[edit]

Audubon is the subject of the 1969 book-length poem, "Audubon: A Vision" by Robert Penn Warren.[87] Stephen Vincent Benét, with his wife Rosemary Benét, included a poem about Audubon in the children's poetry book A Book of Americans.[88]

Audubon's 1833 trip to Labrador is the subject of the novel Creation by Katherine Govier.[89] Audubon and his wife, Lucy, are the chief characters in the "June" section of the Maureen Howard novel Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring.[90] In the novel Audubon's WatchJohn Gregory Brown explores a mysterious death that took place on a Louisiana plantation when Audubon worked there as a young man.[91]

Places named in his honor[edit]

 

Clipper ship Audubon

Works[edit]

Posthumous collections[edit]

 

  • John James Audubon, Selected Journals and Other Writings (Ben Forkner, ed.) (Penguin Nature Classics, 1996) ISBN 0-14-024126-4
  • John James Audubon, Writings & Drawings (Christoph Irmscher, ed.)
  • John James Audubon, The Audubon Reader (Richard Rhodes, ed.) (Everyman Library, 2006) ISBN 1-4000-4369-7
  • Audubon: Early Drawings (Richard Rhodes, Scott V. Edwards, Leslie A. Morris) 
  • John James Audubon, Audubon and His Journals (The European Journals 1826–1829, the Labrador Journal 1833, the Missouri River Journals 1843), edited by Maria Audubon, volumes 1 and 2, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1897 (in  Wikisource).

 

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