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Double Crested Cormorant
Double Crested Cormorant
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Double Crested Cormorant

Artist John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)
Date1839-1844
MediumLithograph, hand colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Michael Cadoux
Object number2010.15.2
Visual DescriptionPhalacrocorax dilophus (Double-Crested Cormorant); green bird with orange face and hooked beak and black wings and feet standing on a seaside rock. From "Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories", Ocatavo Edition, New York and Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and J.B. Chevalier, 1839-1844.
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