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

Common Tern

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 number2012.55.5
DescriptionSterna Hirundo (Common Tern) bird with a black head, gray and white body, and orange beak and webbed feet in flight. Plate 433 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.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
John James Audubon
1839-1844