{"id":8116,"date":"2022-11-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2022-11-19T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:54:48","slug":"thanksgiving-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/thanksgiving-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The painting of a wild turkey featured in this Thanksgiving post is also displayed in pride of place in the book in which it was printed: opposite the title page in\u00a0Audubon’s American Birds, from Plates by J.J. Audubon<\/a><\/em>, published in 1949 in London and New York by a British publisher, Batsford. As the title indicates, this is a book of reproductions of fewer than two dozen of John Audubon\u2019s paintings from his monumental work of natural history and painting,\u00a0Birds of America<\/em>, published in London between 1827 and 1838.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Batsford, the publisher that produced this modest, post-war volume, wished to place Audubon\u2019s accomplished paintings within reach of nearly everyone. The publisher asked Sacheverell Sitwell to write the introduction, which makes up (excluding the illustrations\u2019 captions) the book\u2019s text. Sitwell was a poet and a prolific writer, mostly on artistic themes and as an art critic. In this book on Audubon\u2019s birds, Sitwell places Audubon\u2019s work firmly within the history of British and American art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitwell also underscored the publisher\u2019s populist intent. The writer noted that books like Audubon\u2019s original work, which was produced in the largest possible format\u2014elephantine, was the \u201cmodern equivalent of the illuminated missals of the middle ages. They were accessible only in the houses of the rich and in public libraries.\u201d (p. 10) Sitwell (who was himself both wealthy and titled) and Batsford made Audubon\u2019s great nineteenth-century achievement accessible to popular audiences in Britain and the United States. Turkey for the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RBSC will be closed during Notre Dame\u2019s Thanksgiving Break (November 24-25, 2022). We wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanksgiving 2021: The Thanksgiving that Gave Us a Song, a Movie \u2026 and a Cookbook!<\/a><\/em>
Thanksgiving 2020: Happy Thanksgiving to All Our Readers<\/em><\/a>
Thanksgiving 2019: \u201cThanksgiving Greetings\u201d from the Strunsky-Walling Collection<\/em><\/a>
Thanksgiving 2018: Thanksgiving from the Margins<\/em><\/a>
Thanksgiving 2017: Playing Indian, Playing White<\/em><\/a>
Thanksgiving 2016: Thanksgiving Humor by Mark Twain<\/em><\/a>
Thanksgiving 2015: Thanksgiving and football<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to renovation-related work being done in the department, on November 28-29 Special Collections will be closed to visitors, except for previously scheduled classes.<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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