John James Audubon (1785-1851)
Plate CCCLXXVI Trumpeter Swan (Young)
from Birds of America
Aquatint engraving with original hand coloring
Engraved by Robert Havell (1793-1878)
Published: London, 1827-1838
Paper size: 26 x 39 1/8 in.
Framed size: 36 x 48 1/2 in.

“At New Orleans, where I made the drawing of the young bird here given, the Trumpeters are frequently exposed for sale in the markets, being procured on the ponds of the interior, and on the great lakes leading to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico... The waters of the Arkansas and its tributaries are annually supplied with Trumpeter Swans, and the largest individual which I have examined was shot on a lake near the junction of that river with the Mississippi.” - (Audubon’s Ornithological Biography, 1831).