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Least Flycatcher

Artist (American, 1785 - 1851)
Lithographer (American, 1801 - 1856)
Datec. 1839
Mediumlithograph on white wove paper, hand-colored
DimensionsOctavo: 10 11/16 x 6 15/16 inches (27.1 x 17.6 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (57.2 × 41.9 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.1.7.223
ClassificationsPrints
Label TextAfter completing the double elephant folio of The Birds of America, Audubon produced a smaller version, the octavo edition. For this edition, the prints were produced as lithographs by an American printmaker. The colors still needed to be added by hand. Therefore the printmaker kept pattern plates that gave the colorists guidance. This pattern plate for the Least Flycatcher contains instructions for improving the coloring. In the text of the octavo edition, Audubon wrote, “this bird does not frequent deep forests, but is found among the scattering trees which border our streams.”
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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