Rough-legged Buzzard

Artist John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)

Lithographer John T. Bowen (American, 1801 - 1856)

Datec. 1839

Mediumlithograph on white wove paper, hand-colored

DimensionsOctavo: 10 1/4 × 6 15/16 inches (26 × 17.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number11.1.7.4

ClassificationsPrints

Label TextJohn James Audubon followed a personal passion to study birds. He depicted birds in active poses and in their appropriate habitat. This print is a pattern plate for an edition of his The Birds of America. Pattern plates were the guides for the colorists to add colors by hand. Audubon used the name Rough-legged Buzzard for the bird in this print. He depicted the bird in a dead tree with its captured prey. The current name for this species is Rough-legged Hawk. Alexander Wilson called the same species Variety of Black Hawk in his book on birds.

ProvenancePurchased September 11, 1957 through (Nada Kramar, Washington, D.C.) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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