A note on the Gutenberg Bible and The Birds of America at the Beinecke Library
In the introduction to her extraordinary work, A Guide to Audubon’s Birds of America, scholar Suzanne M. Low provides a concise and detailed account of the papers used in...
A Crow, A Jay, An Oriole, A Warbler.
Birds depicted throughout Audubon’s Birds of America reflect the once-common practice of naming flora, fauna, and landscape features for...
Carrie S. Beinecke, with her husband Frederick “Fritz” Beinecke, donated the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Collection of Western Americana the the Beinecke Library (...
The Beinecke Library has acquired a 19th century gold mourning brooch including a lock of Lucy Audubon’s hair. The brooch is inscribed on the back: “Hair of Mrs. Lucy...
ON VIEW at the Yale University Art Gallery
John James Audubon’s artworks and writings celebrate what today we commonly refer to as biodiversity, the rich and varied forms of life found in a given landscape. For more...
