![Print - Ivory-billed Woodpecker, <em>Campephilus principalis</em>, John James Audubon, 1829 [BA 18]](/content/media/5/609155-small.jpg)
Summary
Hand-coloured aquatint engraving on paper of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), showing a male and two females. Plate 66 from 'Birds of America' (published 1840) by John James Audubon. The original scientific name used by the artist was Picus principalis.
Description of Content
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Publisher
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Artist
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Medium
Ink
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Technique
Print
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Support
Paper
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Plate Number
66
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Classification
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Taxon Name
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Preferred Common name
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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Kingdom
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Phylum
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Subphylum
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Class
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Species Name
principalis
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Framed
981 mm (Width), 1343 mm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
665 mm (Width), 1000 mm (Height)
Scientific Illustration - overall dimension
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Exhibition Collection Management
67 mm (Width), 100 mm (Height)
Scientific Illustration - overall dimension
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Maximum dimensions
664 mm (Width), 995 mm (Height)
Measurement From Conservation.
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References
[Chapter] Pizzey, Graham. Museum Trustee 1945-58, in Pizzey, Graham. Crosbie Morrison, voice of nature. 212-227.