Description

The second print (upper right) is based on an 1833 oil portrait by Henry Inman (1801-1846). Audubon poses a la Byron. Audubon wrote: “Mr. Inman has painted my Portrait in Oil, and I say that it is a truer portrait of me than even the Miniature [upon which number 25 is based].” The print was engraved some twenty years later by H. B. Hall for the second Royal Octavo edition of The Birds of America, published in 1856. This is a rare printer’s proof for that edition, with no printing.
The same engraving later appeared in several editions of The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist, edited by Lucy Audubon. Along with number 25 below, this portrait is one of the best two likenesses of Audubon.