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For more than sixty years, from the Revolution till his death about 1840, the English-born John Abbot explored southeastern Georgia, collecting specimens and making delicate drawings that he sent to European collectors. Sustained by the joy of his work and the approval of a few connoisseurs, Abbot helped other naturalists achieve fame using his work and never sought publication for himself. Amazingly, this selection of his watercolors from the Houghton Library at Harvard University is the first publication in book form of any of his bird drawings. These are reproduced in full color and full size, with a lengthy historical introduction, scholarly notes and a catalogue of known Abbot drawings.
Accompany your purchase with one or more of our lovely John Abbot’s Birds of Georgia Framed Prints.
John Abbot’s Birds of Georgia, John Abbot, birds, Georgia, ornithology, natural history, Vivian Rogers-Price, drawings, watercolors, art, American art, Southern history, Southern art, Georgia history, Houghton Library, Harvard University, John James Audubon, Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, North American birds, ornithological drawings, naturalist, artist-naturalist, John Francillon, Egerton manuscripts, British Museum, Mark Catesby, John Latham, Chetham’s Library, Johann Christian Fabricius, James Edward Smith, Alexander Wilson, Georgia birds, Edward Smith Stanley, William Bartram, John Eatton LeConte, William Swainson, Titian Ramsay Peale, George Ord, Thomas Say, William Maclure, Augustus Gottlieb Oemler, Henry Escher, Heinrich Escher-Zollikofer, Karl Illiger, Knowsley Hall, Frederic de Lafresnaye, Merseyside County Museum, Liverpool, John Bartram, Andre Michaux, Francois Michaux, Johan van Diest, George Edwards, Eleazar Albin, Dru Drury, Henry Smeathman, Thomas Martyn, Aloysius Enslen, Robert Squibb, Thomas Walter, John Lyon, Stephen Elliott, Linnaean Society of London, Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber, Zoological Museum of Berlin University, American Ornithology, Jean Alphonse Boisduval, black vulture, bald eagle, snowy owl, ivory-billed woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, northern flicker, ruby-throated hummingbird, fox sparrow, Carolina wren, common nighthawk, mourning dove, sandhill crane, yellow-crowned night-heron, American egret, great egret, black-crowned night-heron, little blue heron, white ibis, ibis, scarlet ibis, American oystercatcher, black skimmer, hooded merganser, wood duck, lesser scaup, bufflehead, bird portraits, Horace Gray, Boston Society of Natural History
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