Article: John Abbot's Birds of Georgia: Selected Drawings from the Houghton Library, Harvard University.(Review)

Introduction and commentary by Vivian Rogers-Price. Beehive Press, Savannah, Georgia. 1997: vii-xlii, 25 color plates and facing-page commentary, unnumbered and unpaginated. $125 (cloth with linen slipcase). - This publication presents the first color reproductions, in book form, of bird paintings of John Abbot (1751-1840), an English-born artist-naturalist who spent: most of his long adult life in Georgia. He completed more than 5000 watercolors of natural history subjects including more than a thousand of birds, most of which are extant, and another thousand of insects, their life cycles and food plants. The remainder includes everything from mites and ticks to crabs and ...

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