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...catalogue, and as absorbing. Here is the great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters...
Creator of the birds is Dorothy Doughty (rhymes with doubty), eldest daughter of the late great Charles Montagu (Travels in Arabia Deserta) Doughty (TIME, Sept. 6). Shy, 51 and a spinster, Ceramist Doughty lives in Cornwall, England. Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon's Birds of America, is now England's only fashioner in porcelain of the birds...
Artist Doughty's porcelain birds are as meticulously realistic as Audubon's. But she does not depend on him for her avian observations. For that purpose she had a big wire cage constructed around an old apple tree, filled it with birds imported from the U.S. There Artist Doughty spends months studying her birds, sketching poses, shaping preliminary models. Then, in a single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they...
...Cornwall. There she lives quietly with her mother, spends most of her days in her studio. The U.S. bird series now numbers ten pairs. Among them: goldfinches, chickadees, indigo buntings, Baltimore Orioles, mockingbirds. One of the fortunate owners of a complete set of Doughty birds: former director of National Audubon Society Mrs. Carll Tucker...
Winston Churchill, Generalissimo & Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray. Sample: "Protectus Defendus (Joseph Stalin) -RANGE: Unpredictable. HABITAT: Enjoys sub-zero temperatures and thick, slimy mud. Remarkably mobile, he is frequently found far behind his enemies' nests. IDENTIFICATION: A large, tough bird-much tougher than anyone imagined. VOICE: Seldom heard. FOOD: Feeding habits are almost entirely beneficial...