The Gutenberg Bible is on permanent exhibition at Beinecke Library along with the Audubon Double Elephant Folio–what else do the two books have in common?
Now widely associated with the conservation of birds, some may find it surprising to learn that Audubon’s work depended heavily on hunting and killing them.
A new installation starting January 19, 2018
So that every bird in The Birds of America could appear life-sized, the plates were printed on the largest available sheets.
EXHIBITION at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale News – Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ at Yale: creating a masterwork one feather at a time. June 30, 2015
By Mike Cummings
BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT featuring 722 mounted specimens of the more than 300 species that occur regularly in the state
