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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Six Plates from Birds of America. New York and London: American Museum of Natural History and Alecto Historical Editions, 1985.
Double elephant 2° (1110 x 750mm). 6 copperplates colour printed à la poupée, finished in watercolour. Plates in 2 cloth-backed portfolios, in the original cloth covered box with printed labels on spine and upper side.
ONE OF 125 SETS ONLY, PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COPPER PLATES held in the American Museum of Natural History. While Audubon had been delighted with the quality of the original engravings he was terribly disappointed with the colouring of many of the prints. Writing to his printer Robert Havell, he remarked: 'these recent proofs are no more like my drawings than a chimney sweep is to your beautiful wife'. Audubon's original watercolours, notes, letters and bird specimens were used to achieve this definitive edition of the plates. The six prints are: Wild Turkey, male (plate I in the first edition), Snowy Owl (plate CXXI), Canada Goose (plate CCI), Wild Turkey, female and young (VI), Mallard Duck (plate CCXI), and Great White Heron (plate CCLXXXI).
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Double elephant 2° (1110 x 750mm). 6 copperplates colour printed à la poupée, finished in watercolour. Plates in 2 cloth-backed portfolios, in the original cloth covered box with printed labels on spine and upper side.
ONE OF 125 SETS ONLY, PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COPPER PLATES held in the American Museum of Natural History. While Audubon had been delighted with the quality of the original engravings he was terribly disappointed with the colouring of many of the prints. Writing to his printer Robert Havell, he remarked: 'these recent proofs are no more like my drawings than a chimney sweep is to your beautiful wife'. Audubon's original watercolours, notes, letters and bird specimens were used to achieve this definitive edition of the plates. The six prints are: Wild Turkey, male (plate I in the first edition), Snowy Owl (plate CXXI), Canada Goose (plate CCI), Wild Turkey, female and young (VI), Mallard Duck (plate CCXI), and Great White Heron (plate CCLXXXI).
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