Least Petrel, Mother Carey's Chicken
Artist
John James Audubon
(American, 1785 - 1851)
Date1839-1844
MediumLithograph, hand colored
DimensionsSheet size: 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (26 x 15.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. Orrin Lippoff
Object number2012.55.4
DescriptionTwo Thalassidroma pelagica (Least Petrel—Mother Carey's Chicken) birds with all-black bodies except for a white stripe on their tail, in flight above the water. Plate 461 from volume 7 of "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.
