Printed on the plate
“Trumpeter Swan”
Modern identification
Cygnus buccinator
- Certain
- Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae
Why
Audubon's second Trumpeter Swan plate, lettered “Adult”; plate 376 is the young bird
Sources
Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon, F. R. S., F. L. S.Engraved. Printed, & Coloured. by R. Havell, 1838.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
