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 After John James Audubon. Plate 62 Passenger Pigeon from The Birds of America. Hand-colored etching with engraving and aquatint by Robert Havell. On paper watermarked J WHATMAN/TURKEY MILL/1828 and measuring 39-1/4 inches by 25-3/4 inches. First state with outstanding original color. An extraordinary composition of a bird with an extraordinary history. Print for sale in our Havell Edition area. 

See the rare prints corner for unusual or one-of-a-kind original Audubon prints.

We offer a great selection of Audubon bird prints -- originals and fine reproductions

  • Original Double Elephant Folio prints.  We have a large selection of plates from both the Havell Edition (1827-1838, hand-colored etchings with engraving and aquatint by Robert Havell of London) and the Bien Edition (1858-1860, chromolithographs by Julius Bien of New York).
  • We have a set of Alecto Historical Editions' Birds of America restrikes, six top images made in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History to honor the bicentennial of Audubon's birth in an edition of only 125 prints. These prints were made using the original copper plates, then very carefully hand-colored.  These prints are Audubon the way Audubon wanted it to be.
  • For those who have octavo-sized budgets, but long for Audubon prints in the original double elephant folio size, we offer an excellent selection of fine facsimile and reproduction prints.
  • New-York Historical Society Edition of Audubon’s Fifty Best Watercolors. We have facsimile prints of fifty of Audubon's original watercolors. These prints have been digitally reproduced in a strictly limited edition of 200 prints.
  • Octavo prints.  From the first and later editions of Audubon's "small work" (hand-colored stone lithographs, 1840-1871).  


 After John James Audubon. Northern Hare (Winter).  From the Imperial Folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.  Hand-colored stone lithograph by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1845.  This print is for sale in our Imperial Folio area.

The (Viviparous) Quadrupeds of North America

  • Imperial Folio prints.   We have an excellent selection of these large hand-colored stone lithographs including a large number of the smaller (and less expensive) mammals.  
  • Love Audubon's Imperial animals, but can't afford an original?  We have some high-quality giclée and offset facsimiles of these rarely reproduced prints.
  • Octavo prints.  This page offers links to both first and later editions of these smaller well-priced animal prints.  It also includes information on a very rare and complete fascicle (also called part or number).

Other artists

We currently have in stock a selection of fine prints by other important natural history artists.

  • Rex Brasher water birds -- Prints from the third volume of Brasher's monumental work The Birds and Trees of North America, including ducks, geese, swans, flamingo, spoonbill, ibises and herons.  Published in the 1930s with prints hand-colored by Brasher. 
  • Hummingbirds by John Gould (hand-colored lithographs, circa 1850s).
  • Hand-colored engravings by Prideaux John Selby.
  • An original 18th century hand-colored engraving after Mark Catesby.
  • Hand-colored engravings from a folio edition of American Ornithology by Alexander Wilson
  • Prints from the work of Cornelius Nozeman including a beautiful title page from the first volume.
  • Hand-colored engravings from a 19th century edition of Goldsmith (birds, animals, insects, and fish, plus small hand-colored engravings from late 18th century works by Buffon and Wilhelm (art by J. J. Schmuzer).  These decorative prints are beautiful and very affordable.

mystery closet

Open the door to the mystery closet to see  prints about which we are missing information. We have a new print in this area, a hand-colored lithograph of an owl on J WHATMAN 1832 paper sent in by a visitor.  Unfortunately, the print is trimmed to the image, and all text is missing.  We also have in this area two Catesbys (new information added 2/2004), a Gould (mystery solved), and a Bien reproduction (more of a rarity than a mystery).  Look in and see if you notice any new clues...or perhaps even solve the mystery.

study

Go into the study if you'd like to learn how to authenticate Audubon prints.

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