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This painting features two birds standing on a rocky terrain with a distant mountainous background. One bird is resting with its head lowered, showing intricate patterns of white, brown, and black on its feathers. The other bird stands upright, displaying a primarily white body with gray details and red markings around its eye. The background showcases gradients of blue, suggesting a calm sky with overlapping silhouettes of mountains.
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This painting features two birds standing on a rocky terrain with a distant mountainous background. One bird is resting with its head lowered, showing intricate patterns of white, brown, and black on its feathers. The other bird stands upright, displaying a primarily white body with gray details and red markings around its eye. The background showcases gradients of blue, suggesting a calm sky with overlapping silhouettes of mountains.

National Gallery of Art · Print

American Ptarmigan and White-tailed Grous

Robert Havell after John James Audubon

Date
1838
Medium
hand-colored engraving and aquatint on Whatman wove paper
Classification
Print
Accession number
1945.8.418
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Walter B. James
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
The Birds of America: Plate CCCCXVIII

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • aquatint
  • bird
  • animal
  • Mountain
  • Grass
  • Writing

NGA object ID 32559. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.