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

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

Visual 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.