John James Audubon (Art Ebook) pdf torrent

H.N. Abrams / 1992 / 92 pag / ISBN10 0810919184 / Pdf / Eng / 11.9 MB

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON spoke little English when he came to America from France at the age of eighteen. But he was charming, musical and a good dancer, so he quickly made himself at home. The land he came to in 1803, soon after the founding of the new Republic, was still largely wilderness. This suited Audubon perfectly, for he loved the outdoors more than anything. Within a short time, his passion for American birds became an obsession and he was tracking, observing, sketching, and painting every species he could find. In time he developed the largest and most accurate collection of paintings of American birds ever assembled