Audubon’s Quadrupeds of North America, by plate number

After The Birds of America, John James Audubon turned to the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America was made with the Lutheran minister and naturalist John Bachman of Charleston, who wrote the text. Audubon’s son John Woodhouse Audubon painted about half of the animals and managed the printing.

The plates are hand-coloured lithographs, printed by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia, and issued in parts of five to subscribers. The large imperial folio has 150 plates; the lithographs carry dates from 1842 to 1848. Bachman’s text followed in three volumes, in 1846, 1851 and 1853–54. A later small edition renumbered the plates, so numbers from one edition do not match the other.

This page lists the folio plates we hold, 149 of the 150, in plate order. Each number was read on the plate itself and checked against the plate headings in Bachman’s text.