Print of the illustration "Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Rock Creek Park," a scratchboard created by Francis Lee Jaques for "Spring in Washington" by Louis J. Halle, Jr. (1947.) Print was one of a series of illustrations from this book that were published by the Audubon Naturalist Society of Washington, DC.
Print of an image of a family of wood ducks by Francis Lee Jaques. Ducklings are pictured in their nest in a tree trunk, in the process of jumping to the ground, and safely on the ground, where the mother duck waits. The background features a male wood duck in flight. Paper has been mounted to pressboard. This belongs to a group of three illustr...
Print, after original oil painting, of a flock of white ibises circling over a wetland river, with storm clouds in the background. Handwritten on back: "Audubon House (?), n.y.c."
Color print of two tufted titmice perching among pine branches and pinecones. Print after an original watercolor by Francis Lee Jaques. Part of a series of prints of birds printed by Barton-Cotton, Inc. Printed on reverse of sheet: "From Series 3 Originated by Betty Carnes / Executed in watercolor by Francis Lee Jaques / Approved by American Nat...
Print after a scratchboard illustration, depicting a train depot with a train to the left of depot. The viewpoint is positioned slightly low, so that the depot appears to loom above the viewer.
Color print of an artwork by Francis Lee Jaques, depicting three swans flying over a beach. Appears to be a print after an oil painting. According to a pencil note on the back of the sheet, this image came from a 1944 calendar.
Color print of Francis Lee Jaques's painting "The Jack Rabbit," an oil painting created for the magazine "Outdoor Life." The original painting was created in 1946 and is now owned by the Jaques Art Center; the print is undated. Depicts a jackrabbit looking out over a landscape of grassy fields and rolling hills.
Print, after an original scratchboard illustration, of pair of snowshoes sticking up from snow. This image was used on embossed cloth cover of "Snowshoe Country" (Florence Page Jaques, 1944.) Bell Museum also owns the original scratchboard of this image (JC.75.2.34, "Snowshoes.")
Color print of a male robin, facing left, perched on a leafy branch with red berries. Print after an original watercolor by Francis Lee Jaques. Part of a series of prints of birds printed by Barton-Cotton, Inc. Printed on reverse of sheet: "From Series 3 Originated by Betty Carnes / Executed in watercolor by Francis Lee Jaques / Approved by Amer...
Print entitled "Ring-billed Gulls near the Lincoln Memorial," after a scratchboard by Francis Lee Jaques used to illustrate "Spring in Washington" by Louis J. Halle, Jr. (1947.) This print is part of a set of four published by the Audubon Naturalist Society of Washington, DC, an organization that owned the original scratchboards. Image depicts a...
Print of a scratchboard depicting a puma hunting a small South American deer called a pudu, against a background of tall mountains. This image was used in the book "South American Zoo" (Victor W. Von Hagen, 1946.)
Four pintail ducks in phragmites reeds. One floating, three landing. This print is part of a series of prints after Jaques scratchboards published in the 1960s.
Four pintail ducks in phragmites reeds. One floating on water, three landing. This print is part of a series of prints after Jaques scratchboards published in the 1960s.
High-quality reproduction of Francis Lee Jaques's watercolor study for Volume I, Plate 41 of "The Birds of Minnesota" (Thomas Sadler Roberts, 2 volumes, 1932.) Pairs of passenger pigeons and mourning doves perch on the twigs of a single branch.