  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  The Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1827
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  John James Audubon  (Artist)
  American, 1785-1851
  Robert Havell, Jr.  (Engraver)
  American, 1793-1878
  Robert Havell, Sr.  (Printer)
  English, 1769-1832
  John James Audubon  (Publisher)
  American, 1785-1851
  
  
  
  Medium
  Engraving, etching, and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 35 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (90.2 × 54.6 cm)
  Sheet (trimmed inside platemark): 37 5/8 × 24 3/4 inches (95.6 × 62.9 cm)
  Framed: 45 3/4 × 33 × 1 1/2 inches (116.2 × 83.8 × 3.8 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  46.126
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
