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American Flamingo | watercolor with plate 431 — Comparing John James Audubon's watercolors with printed engravings through GIF animations
Note: This essay was first published on Design Observer and then republished in the book, Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer by MIT Press.