1079031 Audubon Opening His Box of Watercolours Destroyed by Norway Rats, c.1872-77 (ukiyo-e woodblock print on paper) by Japanese School, (19th century); Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; (add.info.: In John James Audubon\'s?(April 26, 1785 ??January 27, 1851) Ornithological Biography,?he recounts that in 1812 he was in Philadelphia on one of his rambles, and while he was gone, rats got into a box with at least two hundred sheets of his work, which depicted?nearly a thousand bird species, and shredded them all for their nests.); 穢 New York Historical Society .