A wild turkey cock stands tall with his head raised, while the hen and their chicks forage at his feet under a wide sky. John James Audubon is best known for the life-size bird prints of The Birds of America, but this is a large oil painting of a whole turkey family, painted around 1828–1829; an earlier Harvard title called it “Wild Turkey Cock and Hen and Nine Chicks.” Audubon kept the painting. It was exhibited in New York at the Lyceum of Natural History in 1839 and at the Apollo Association in 1841, and at his death in 1851 he left it to his wife, Lucy Bakewell Audubon. The collector John E.

Thayer had bought it by 1917 and gave it to Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1939; it moved to the Fogg Museum in 1964. It is in the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts.