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

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Little Nimble Weasel

Artist John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)

Date1849-1854

MediumLithograph, hand-colored

DimensionsMat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Page: 7 × 10 1/2 in. (17.8 × 26.7 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Lawrence Reed Miller

Object number2010.11.13

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionPutorius agilis (little nimble weasel); two white weasels with black-tipped tails stand on a grassy mount looking at a beetle (?) on a dead tree; a fence, fields, a house, and hills in the distance. From "The Quadrupeds of North America", by John James Audubon and John Bachman (American, 1790-1874); Ocatavo Edition, New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854.