Misconceptions About John James Audubon From: The Washington Post | Date: June 30, 1997 | Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The review of the John James Audubon exhibition at the National Museum of American History {"Audubon's Artful Nature," Weekend, May 30} included commonly held misconceptions about the incomparable artist-naturalist.

Audubon was the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and a French chambermaid in Haiti, not of the sea captain and his "Creole mistress." He went to France at the age of 3, not 9.

It also is questionable whether Alexander Wilson's static depictions of bir...

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