Neville Park
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For #InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay: the Audubons' #raccoons from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America:
1 Raccoon (Procyon lotor), watercolor study c.1838-43?
2 Raccoon, Bowen ed. PL61 1846
3 Raccoon, Octavo ed. PL61 1851
4 Crab-eating Raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), Octavo ed. PL155 1854
#4: Crab-eating Raccoon, Octavo ed. volume 3 plate 155, 1854 single specimen inside profile side profile on a branch rising out of the water in a wetland landscape (species is depicted browner and more slender than the common raccoon)
#3: Raccoon, Octavo ed. volume 1 plate 61, 1851 variation of the original illustration, now vertical instead of horizontal and with a second smaller raccoon (also in side profile) added to a second branch above
#2: Raccoon, Bowen ed. volume 1 plate 61, 1846 single specimen inside profile on a section of tree branch, FAT (may have been a pet!)
#1: Raccoon, watercolor study c.1838-43? single specimen in side profile on a tree branch, small illustration in upper left quadrant of an otherwise blank paper