Red-tailed Squirrel (Sciurus rubricaudatus) by John Woodhouse Audubon, 1845 history long before it became a

long before it became a focal sports venue

almost meditative stillness of this scene speaks to the timelessness of Greek antiquity and the early twentieth‑century impulse to see historic landmarks through a fresh

with flashes of green enlivening the surface

while the interlocking

Red-tailed Squirrel (Sciurus rubricaudatus) by John Woodhouse Audubon, 1845 history long before it became aJohn Woodhouse Audubons Sciurus rubricaudatus, Red tailed Squirrel. Natural size. Male. (1845) is a refined Victorian zoological illustration that embodies the 19thcentury union of art and science. Audubon (18121862), an American naturalist artist working in the mid 1800s, is celebrated for lifelike studies that balance meticulous observation with painterly grace. Here, a male redtailed squirrel is rendered at true scale, poised along a curving bough