Blue Yellow Back Warbler
Audubon: Die Vögel Amerikas I, 1812
- Artist
- Audubon: Die Vögel Amerikas I
- Date
- 1812
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache over graphite
- Dimensions
- 36.2 × 27.7 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Licence
- Public domain, CC0
Image description
This is a painting of a blue bird perched on a flowering branch. The bird has a blue head, tail, and wings, with a white throat and body, both tinged with pink. Its beak is black with a hint of yellow. The bird is facing the right, standing on a branch with green leaves and partially open pink-purple flowers. The background is beige paper, and there are some written lines of text at the bottom of the painting.