print room: John James Audubon

The Birds of America; from Original Drawings
     folio prints from the Havell Edition (1827-1838)

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Plate 21 Mocking Bird - one of Audubon's most dramatic and controversial works.  Excellent condition, superb color.  Measuring 38-1/4 x 25-1/2 inches, full sheet on J WHATMAN 1836.  MORE PHOTOS   Inquire for price.  

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#62 Passenger Pigeon.  One of Audubon's most beautiful images.  First state, full sheet on J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL. This important species has been extinct for over 90 years. DETAIL PHOTO  Inquire for price.

 

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Plate 421 Brown Pelican - Young first winter.  Important print of immature Brown Pelican (state bird of Louisiana). On J WHATMAN 1838.  SOLD 

All prints are from the Havell Edition (1827 to 1838, hand-colored etchings with engraving and aquatint).  Each has a complete watermark (J WHATMAN / YEAR or J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / YEAR) unless otherwise stated.  Prices do not include frames. If you are interested in purchasing a specific print, let us know.  Also available, we have a few uncolored Havells and an uncolored restrike -- see these prints in our rare prints corner.

Please contact us for condition reports and additional photos.  Visit our ordering page to read about our guarantee, and for information on sales tax, shipping, and forms of payment.

Click any photo for a larger image.  Because of the difficulties involved in photographing large prints, shadow and uneven lighting affect many of the photos below.  If you are interested in a print, please ask for a condition report. 

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Californian Partridge. Plate 413. Colorful print of two California Quail in mountain landscape. Full sheet with margin repair. HOLD $5,750.  DETAIL PHOTO 

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Pl 265 Buff-breasted Sandpiper.  Beautiful scene of two sandpipers on the shore.  Lovely color.  DETAIL PHOTO   $3,750

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Plate 37 Golden-winged Woodpecker.  Lively portrait of the Common Flicker.  Full sheet in excess of 39 x 26 inches.  Lined with mulberry, repaired creases in margins.  Outstanding color. DETAIL PHOTO  $14,000.

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Plate 67 Red-winged Starling or Marsh Blackbird.  [Red-winged Blackbird]  With red Maple.  Full sheet, beautiful colors and excellent condition.  DETAIL PHOTO  $9,000.

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Plate 113 Blue-bird.[Eastern Bluebird]  Beautiful composition showing a family of birds.  Full sheet on J WHATMAN 1834.   DETAIL PHOTO  $9,750. 

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Plate 33 American Goldfinch on J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL (date trimmed).  Very desirable image; a lovely composition showing male and female goldfinches on blooming branch of thistle.  Slightly trimmed to 36 x 24 inches. DETAIL PHOTO $12,000.

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Plate 100 Marsh Wren.  Three Marsh Wrens in a grass nest.  Full sheet, overall very good with corner repair.  Watermarked J WHATMAN 1831.  DETAIL PHOTO  $3,500.

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Plate 8 White-throated Sparrow with lovely branch of flowering white dogwood. Full sheet, very good.  With original copper plate prepared by W. H. Lizars, this plate does not have aquatint.  Second state.  Watermarked J WHATMAN 1831.  DETAIL PHOTO   SOLD

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Pl 202 Red-throated Diver.  Beautiful scene with four birds including an adorable chick.  Full sheet (26 x 39), watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1834.  DETAIL PHOTO   $14,000

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Pl 227 Pintail Duck.  Full sheet (26 x 39) with medium-sized image.  A male and female in pursuit of a meal.  Watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1834.  DETAIL PHOTO  $16,000.

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Plate 199 Little Owl [Northern Saw-whet Owl] Some dark spots caused by impurities in the paper (this is not foxing), mostly in margin.  Good overall condition and color.  Full sheet on J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1834.  DETAIL PHOTO   $4,500. 

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Plate 86 Black Warrior. (Harlan's Hawk - a subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk). This print from a partial set that was never bound. Set sold in 1942 by a descendant of the original subscriber. Sheet is very large with deckle (untrimmed) edges. The entire plate mark is visible. One repaired tear.   DETAIL PHOTO   $12,500.

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Plate 135 Blackburnian Warbler.  Shown with stem of smooth phlox. Full sheet. Some rippling and crease at edge of image area.  $3,500.  DETAIL PHOTO

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Plate 180 Pine Linnet. [Pine Siskin]  Full clean sheet with excellent color. Lovely composition. Uneven tone in photo is due to shadows, paper is even in color.  $3,250   DETAIL PHOTO

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Plate 165 Bachman's Finch. Audubon placed this secretive and shy bird on a beautiful orchid by the very talented Maria Martin. Trimmed to 18 by 25 inches, with a very small part of the watermark still intact.  DETAIL PHOTO   $2,000

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#20 Blue-winged Yellow Warbler. Trimmed to 28 inches x 19-1/2 inches. Beautiful warbler image with lovely rose mallow (hibiscus). Watermark trimmed away.  SOLD

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 Plate 348 Gadwall Duck.  With watermark J WHATMAN 1836, slightly trimmed to 36-1/2 x 24-3/4 inches. Fine portrait of the Grey Duck.  DETAIL PHOTO  $8,000.

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Plate 313 Blue-winged Teal.  Very popular print, trimmed with close to 2-inch margin around plate mark.  A small part of watermark still intact.  Sheet measuring around 17 x 22-1/2 inches.  $6,000.

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Plate 239 American Coot.  Beautiful image of a common water bird.  Excellent color.  DETAIL PHOTO  $12,000

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Plate 258 Hudsonian Godwit.  Full sheet, outstanding color.  Graceful shore birds.  DETAIL PHOTO  $5,500.

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Plate 54 Rice Bunting. Portrait of the Bobolink in a red maple. Full sheet, overall very good condition.  DETAIL PHOTO 1  DETAIL PHOTO 2 $5,250.

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Plate 58 Hermit Thrush.  A charming composition featuring one of our most melodic birds.  Paper repairs in top margin.  Lovely color.  J WHATMAN 1831. DETAIL PHOTO $3,950.

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Plate 149 Sharp-tailed Finch. [Sharp-tailed Sparrow.]  Beautiful landscape scene with nest.  Repaired tear. $3,250. DETAIL PHOTO

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Havell Edition, Plate 424.  Lazuli Finch [Lazuli Bunting], Crimson-necked Bull-finch [House Finch], Grey-crowned Linnet [Grey-crowned Rosy Finch], Cow-Pen Bird [Brown-headed Cowbird], Evening Grosbeak [Evening Grosbeak], Brown Longspur [Fox Sparrow].  Full sheet. Expertly repaired tear extending from bottom edge to 1/2 inch inside plate mark. (Almost invisible as framed.)  Beautiful colors.  $4,250.


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Plate 320 Little Sandpiper. [Least Sandpiper] Slightly trimmed to 35-1/2 inches x 25 inches.  Full watermark  J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1838. DETAIL PHOTO  $4,250

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Plate 322 Red-headed Duck.  Trimmed to 29-3/4 inches x 25 inches.  Watermark reads J WHATMA / 1836.  Very nice sunset scene. DETAIL PHOTO  $7,750.

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Pl 263 Pygmy Curlew [Curlew Sandpiper]  This print comes from the folio originally belonging to the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (sold at Christie's New York on Sept 14-15, 1987).  Copy of the catalogue will be included.  DETAIL PHOTO  $3,000

 

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Pl 370 American Water Ouzel [American Dipper]  Watermarked J WHATMAN 1837.  This print comes from the folio originally belonging to the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (sold at Christie's New York on Sept 14-15, 1987).  Copy of the catalogue will be included.  DETAIL PHOTO   $3,000. 

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Pl 382 Sharp-tailed Grous.  A game bird of central and western North America, this bird's range in the United States has shrunk considerably.  Two birds in a landscape with a river in the distance. DETAIL PHOTO 1  DETAIL PHOTO 2 $14,000.

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Pl 282 White-winged Silvery Gull [Iceland Gull]. A lovely image of two seagulls, one old, one young against a stormy sky.  Dramatic colors.  DETAIL PHOTO 1   DETAIL PHOTO 2  $8,750.

 

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Plate 161 Black-capped Titmouse. This is actually a portrait of the Carolina Chickadee, a bird similar in appearance to the Black-capped, but with a more southerly range.  This is an early impression, before Audubon realized he had discovered a new species and changed the title on the plate to read "Carolina Titmouse."  [The Black-capped was included in Plate 353.]   DETAIL PHOTO   SOLD

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Plate 353 Chestnut-backed Titmouse [Chestnut-backed Chickadee], Black-capt Titmouse [Black-capped Chickadee], Chestnut-crowned Titmouse [Bushtit].  Three species surrounding a nest. Excellent color.  J WHATMAN 1837.  Some repairs in margin and at edges. DETAIL PHOTO  SOLD

Don't forget to take a look at our Alecto restrikes for six top Havell images, or browse through our large selection of Bien Edition prints.  Can't afford a Havell, a Bien, or an Alecto?  Then check out our Princeton Edition facsimile prints -- Audubon's art, full-sized and affordable! 

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