Least 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 number2012.55.6
DescriptionTwo Sterna Minuta (Least Tern) birds, one with a black head and blue-white body, the other with a speckled black, white, and gray body, and white belly, both in flight. Plate 439 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.
