This is Plate CL (150) from Audubon's outstanding work on mammals. Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon set out to document animal life in North America. Audubon collaborated with the Reverend John Bachman, a Lutheran minister and experienced student of mammalogy, who wrote much of the text for the work. By 1846, Audubon's health had deteriorated, so he enlisted the help of his sons to complete the Quadrupeds. John Woodhouse Audubon completed half of the plates for the work, and Victor served as editor and business manager. This engraving depicts a Southern Pouched Rat and three types of shrew: Dekay's Shrew, Long-Nosed Shrew and Silvery Shrew Mole. Lithographed, printed and colored by the famous J. T. Bowen, and based on a drawing by John Woodhouse Audubon. Sheet measures 26.4 x 20.75".

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Condition: B

Original color with light soiling and a couple of tiny tears along sheet edges, not affecting image. There is a crease across bottom right corner with a 1.75" crack at the right-hand edge that has been closed on verso with archival tape.