Walking with Birds: The Art of Audubon and MacGillivray
Title
Walking with Birds: The Art of Audubon and MacGillivray
Description
An exhibition exploring the lives and friendship of nineteenth-century Aberdeen professor William MacGillivray and renowned American artist and naturalist John James Audubon, and the extraordinary book that they created together.
The exhibition showcases a volume of the fabulous metre high book, Birds of America, which is filled with Audubon's spectacular bird paintings. It also explores the less well-known scientific text that accompanied the famous book, 'Ornithological Biography', which William MacGillivray helped to write.
The exhibition showcases a volume of the fabulous metre high book, Birds of America, which is filled with Audubon's spectacular bird paintings. It also explores the less well-known scientific text that accompanied the famous book, 'Ornithological Biography', which William MacGillivray helped to write.
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Collection Items
Journal of a years residence and travel in the Hebrides, by William MacGillivray
Though born in Aberdeen, William MacGillivray spent his youth in the Hebrides, a group of islands off Scotland’s west coast. Aged 21 he travelled the region, keeping an account of the flora and fauna he observed, as well as the people he met and the…
