John James Audubon (1785-1851) Black Tailed Deer, Plate 78, Octavo Texasaudubon Unlike the Chorographical map

Unlike the Chorographical map

with a small plaster planet (Mars) on a wire

he appears to have worked as a court artist in France

He was the son of the famous cartographer Didier Robert de Vaugondy

Whether this represents ancient knowledge from early Chinese navigations in this region

John James Audubon (1785-1851) Black Tailed Deer, Plate 78, Octavo Texasaudubon Unlike the Chorographical mapJohn James Audubon (1785 1851) & John Woodhouse Audubon (1812 1862) Black Tailed Deer, Plate LXXVIII From The Quadrupeds of North America, Octavo Edition Published New York and Philadelphia, 1845 1871 Lithograph printed with color and finished by hand 6 x 10 inches