The Birds of America, Plate #350: "Rocky Mountain Plover"

Artist John James Audubon American, born Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), 1785–1851

Date1827–1838

MediumHand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper

Dimensions(paper) 40 x 26 in. (101.6 x 66.0 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineTransfer from the North Carolina State Library

Object numberG.74.27.4/350

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ProvenanceCreated London, 1827–1838, printed by Robert Havell Jr. and Robert Havell Sr. [1]. Private collection; [Joseph Green Cogswell (book dealer), New York, 1846]; State of North Carolina, 1846; North Carolina State Library, Raleigh, 1846–1974; transferred to NCMA, 1974.

[1] Up to ten prints were engraved in Edinburgh in 1827 by William H. Lizars.

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