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Audubon's First Print Is Found
Thu Aug 05, 2010 07:35 AM


For decades, scholars have wondered what happened to naturalist John James Audubon's first commercial illustration, of a small bird called a heath hen. In 1824, the engraving was destined to decorate a banknote — but it was soon lost. Now an example has been found.


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