Groundhog
Artist
John James Audubon
(American, 1785 - 1851)
Date1849-1854
MediumLithograph, hand-colored
Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Lawrence Reed Miller
Object number2010.11.14
DescriptionArctomys monax (wood-chuck / Maryland marmot / ground-hog); three groundhogs in a prairie; one stands on all four legs in the foreground, and two stand on their back two legs in the midground among yellow flowers and green grasses. 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.
