The watercolors Robert completed under Gaston d’Orleans and then Louis XIV for the royal collection fed the interest and provided the inspiration for the great masters of botanical and ornithological art who followed: Jean Joubert
The Hudson River appears as the "Riviere des trettes
the best in contemporary cartography of that region
also known as Gilles Robert de Vaugondy
Length to end of tail 55 inches
AUDUBON, John James, Plate CCXVI. Wood Ibis Natural History Prints The watercolors Robert completed underAUDUBON, John James (1785 1851) Wood Ibis, Plate 216 Aquatint engraving with original hand color London: Robert Havell, 1827 1838 37 1 4" x 25" sheet One of Audubon's Genius Icons. "As soon as they have discovered a place abounding in fish, they dance as it were all through it, until the water becomes thick with mud stirred from the bottom by their feet." Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831 John James Audubon is without rival as the most