Bowdoin College Texasaudubon blank landmass looms out of

blank landmass looms out of the right frame of the map labeled Terre de la Compagnie

and an early and unique work by the first North American-born mapmaker

Small delicate details raise these compositions beyond the documentary checklist of a trophy hunter

natural scientist and geographer-astronomer

Aquatint and etching with original hand coloring heightened with gum arabic Blind stamp lower margin center

Bowdoin College Texasaudubon blank landmass looms out ofRichard Rummell Bowdoin College Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed.