Andrew Jackson Grayson, the “Audubon of the West”

Alan C. Braddock

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Jacana Spinosa, 1861Watercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, 1854Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Louisiana, parish map

William Jewett, The Promised Land—The Grayson Family, 1850Oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 65 in., Terra Museum of American Art

William Ranney, Boone’s First View of Kentucky, 1849Oil on canvas, 36 x 53 in., Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

Jewett, The Promised Land—The Grayson Family, 1850Oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 65 in., Terra Museum of American Art

Jewett, The Promised Land—The Grayson Family, 1850Oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 65 in., Terra Museum of American Art

Victor G. and John W. Audubon, John James Audubon, 1841

Oil on canvas, 44 x 60 in., American Museum of Natural History, New York

Jewett, The Promised Land—The Grayson Family, 1850Oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 65 in., Terra Museum of American Art

Victor G. and John W. Audubon, John James Audubon, 1841

Oil on canvas, 44 x 60 in., American Museum of Natural History, New York

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Self-Portrait, 1853Watercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

John James Audubon, Self-Portrait, 1826Pencil on paper, private collection, London

Frances Timmons Grayson, 1870Watercolor, Bancroft Library,

University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, 1854Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

City Hotel with Grayson’s Pioneer Book Store, San Francisco, late 1840sWood engraving from The Annals of San Francisco, 1855, p. 346

Town of Grayson, CA, with Grayson Hotel, 1850sLithographs from History of Stanislaus County, California, 1881, facing p. 236

After Andrew Jackson Grayson, “The Road-Runner of California,” 1856Wood engraving published in Hutchings California Magazine (1856)

Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887)Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.

Bird specimens prepared taxidermically by Andrew Jackson GraysonNational Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

After Andrew Jackson Grayson, “Largest Oriole, Genus Icterus,” 1859Hand-colored lithograph published in Hesperian (1859)

Andrew Jackson Grayson in Mazatlán, Mexico,1861Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson in Mazatlán, Mexico,1861Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Mexican Cacique, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Squirrel Cuckoo, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Tres Marías Red-breasted Chat, 1865Watercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Squirrel Cuckoo, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Bat Falcon, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Red-fronted Parrot, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Red-fronted Parrot, 1860s, detailWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

A. J. Grayson, Red-fronted Parrot, 1860s, detailWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Havell after Audubon, Carolina Parakeet, 1832, detailHand-colored engraving, 33 ¼ x 23 ½ in., from The Birds of America, pl. 26

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Collared Micrastur, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Collared Micrastur, 1860s, detailWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Collared Micrastur, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Audubon, Rough-legged Buzzard, 1833Royal Octavo edition of The Birds of America, pl. 11

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Guatemalan Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

A. J. Grayson, Guatemalan Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1860sWatercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Havell after Audubon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1832Hand-colored engraving, 38 ¼ x 25 ½ in., from The Birds of America, pl. 66

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), 1868(Watercolor, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), 1868Watercolor, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

John James Audubon, Snowy Egret, 1835Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper, 29 ¼ x 21 5/16 in.,

New-York Historical Society

Andrew and Frances Grayson meet Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlotta of Mexico, 1866

Édouard Manet, The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1868-69Oil on canvas, 8 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft. 10 in., Kunsthalle, Mannheim

Andrew Jackson Grayson, Black-bellied Tree Duck, 1868Watercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley