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We feature Princetons - Exact documents of the original Birds of America prints.
Bill Steiner, author of Audubon Prints: A Collector's Guide to Every Edition:
"They are true prints - great paper, incredible detail and true colors.
Simply the finest Audubon facsimiles ever made!"
What's a double elephant?    Is your Audubon print an original?   Stradivarious.  Just a violin?

Audubon Carolina ParrotWelcome, and thank you for visiting Princeton Audubon Limited, and for making us number one in Audubon fine art! Princeton Audubon Double Elephant prints are investment grade prints.  Princetons are neither posters nor the ever-growing list of high-priced computer generated ink-jet giclee editions. Princetons were uniquely produced by first purchasing the originals, and then transferring all their detail and color to the highest-quality paper.  There are simply no other prints like Princetons, each being a fine art document of an actual original, right down to the tips of the feathers! Princeton has reproduced fine art prints for The National Gallery of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and many more where art critical reproductions were needed. Produced between 1985 and 1993 with a production cost over 1 million dollars, and rarely marketed until 2002, Princetons are nearly sold out. Princeton double elephants, the world's only direct-camera Audubon facsimiles, are sold unframed and shipped the next day. Thank you for your visit!  Comments from people you know Chris Lane, guest art appraiser seen on the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: "...of all the full-size facsimiles of Audubon's prints, those from Princeton Audubon Ltd. come the closest in appearance and quality to the originals.  Combining this with their very reasonable cost make the Princeton Audubon facsimiles winners for those looking to acquire some of the most dramatic American natural history images ever produced."

Audubon print: Snowy Heron.  Just a small detail shown here. Click this image for more information.PRINCETON DOUBLE ELEPHANTS  26 1/4 x 39 1/4
Pileated Woodpecker  Wild Turkey  SOLD OUT 
White Pelican   Purple Heron   American Flamingo   Carolina Parrot   Brown Pelican   Snowy Heron   Snowy Owl   Blue Crane   Goldfinch   Yellow-billed Cuckoo   Bonaparte Flycatcher   Baltimore Oriole   Blue Yellow-backed Warbler   Carolina Turtledove   Vigors's Warbler   Black-billed Cuckoo  
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  Painted Bunting SOLD OUT 
Red-shouldered Hawk   Wood Thrush   Great Carolina Wren   House Wren   Columbia Jay   Black & Yellow  Warbler  
Yellow-breasted Chat   Field Sparrow   White-crowned Pigeon   Pinnated Grous   Summer or Wood Duck   Hooded Merganser   Purple Heron   Purple Gallinule  Black or Surf Duck 
Long-legged Avocet  Columbian Hummingbird  
Band-tailed Pigeon

RARE-PRINTS DOUBLE ELEPHANTS (About 26 x 40)
Osprey or Fish Hawk   Wild Turkey (Male)   Wild Turkey (Female)   Virginia Partridge   The Mallard   The Carolina Turtledove   The Florida Jay   Barred Owl   The Red-headed Duck   The American Ptarmigan
PRINCETON WATERCOLOR EDITION  (16 x 24)
Bachman's Warbler  Great Gray Owl  Snowy Owl
Passenger Pigeon  Common Tern  Gyrfalcon  Trumpeter Swan
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RINCETON NYHS ESSEX EDITION (Imperial sized)
Roseate Spoonbill  19 x 23  Louisiana Heron  19 x 23
Great Blue Heron 17 1/2 x 26 Hooping Crane 17 1/2 x 26
AUDUBON'S QUADRUPEDS (Imperial sized 22 x 28))
Grey Fox  Grey Rabbit  Ocelot  Jaguar  Collard Peccary  Red Texan Wolf  Texan Hare  Deer (Fawn)  Virginian Deer  Armadillo  Say's Squirrel  Raccoon  Black Squirrel (Call)

Regarding Princeton Audubon Double Elephants
  • World's only direct-camera Audubon folio re-creations.  These are not today's common ink-jet giclees.
  • Unframed, shipped in a heavy art mailing tube.
  • Acid-free heavy archival paper ( Mohawk Superfine) recommended by Library of Congress for archives
  • Fade-proof inks, printed on 300 line
  • Pencil numbered in lower left corner
  • Limited editions of 1,500 (500 for White Pelican)
  • Full-size 26 1/4 x 39 1/4
  • Embossed with Princeton seal in lower right corner
  • Registered to your name
  • 36 to choose from
  • Next day shipping
  • Some available without seal or number at a reduced cost.  Click here.

 


 
Who Dat?  State bird of Louisiana!
The Brown Pelican.
(New Orleans on your mind?)

Special today!  $250.
26 1/4 x 39 1/4.  Limited edition, archival paper.
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FEATHER YOUR NEST!
Audubon print: Purple Heron or Reddish Egret
Above: The Purple Heron or Reddish Egret.  Print measures 26 1/4 x 39 1/4. 
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Princetons were produced in Princeton, New Jersey, by the late David O. Johnson - a Master Printer and one of the world's foremost collectors of Audubon original prints. Princetons are actual documents of the 170-year-old antique originals.


Make your walls sing!  Purchase any two of the ten double elephant prints detailed  below for $250 each.  Use the button below and enter your two choices in the message box at checkout. Thank you!
All ten measure 26 1/4 x 39 1/4 - The birds are the same size as life!

Audubon Snowy Heron or Snowy EgretAudubon Baltimore OrioleAudubon Carolina ParrotAudubon Summer or Wood Duck.Audubon Art Print: Snowy Owl. $500. The breeding ground of the magnificent snowy owl lies across northern Alaska and Canada, where the lemming is its staple food, supplemented by ptarmigan, fish and hare.   A persistent hunter, it spends much time on lookouts such as banks, boulders, knolls, and dunes along the sea.  Periodic epidemics decimate the lemmings and seem to account for the bird's southward flight, which gives Stateside birders a chance to see this large, white inhabitant of the tundra.
                   Snowy Heron        Baltimore Oriole    Carolina Parrot       Wood Duck           Snowy Owl

Audubon Art Print: Brown Pelican. $500. The brown pelican is a ponderous bird, but with its six-and-one-half-food wingspread has a powerful flight which it alternates with short glides.  The bird carries a large pouch under its lower bill and has an appetite for fish as large as the pouch.   American children learn of the brown pelican through a well known bit of doggerel that begins:  "What a wonderful bird is the pelican-Its beak can hold more than its belly can,..."Audubon Art Print: Ruby-throated Hummingbird. $450. Audubon spoke glowingly of this bird of eastern North America:  "No sooner has the returned sun again introduced the vernal season, and caused millions of plants to expand their leaves and blossoms to the genial beams, than the little Hummingbird is seen advancing on fairy wings, carefully visiting every opening flower cup."  And Frank M. Chapman, in his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, wrote, "The Ruby-throat needs no song.  Its beauty gives it distinction, and its wings make music." Audubon Art Print: Columbia Jay. $450. Each of the two jays was painted separately and in 1829 arranged in a composition depicting them perched on a dead limb entwined with poison ivy.Audubon Art Print: Carolina Turtle Doves. $450. In this painting Audubon attempted, as he wrote, to give "a faithful representation of two as gentle pairs of Turtles [doves] as ever cooed their loves in the green woods.  I have placed them on a branch of Stuartia, which you see ornamented with a profusion of white blossoms, emblematic of purity and chastity."Audubon Art Print: Red-shouldered Hawk. $450. Audubon studied the habits of the pair of hawks represented here over a period of three years, and this devotion resulted in one of the finest works he did in Louisiana before sailing to Liverpool in 1826.  "The mutual attachment of the male and the female continues during life," Audubon wrote.  "They usually hunt in pairs during the whole year; and although they built a new nest every spring, they are fond of resorting to the same parts of the woods for that purpose."

                          Brown Pelican        Hummingbird       Columbia Jay         Turtledove                 Hawk 
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To our visitors ...  Are you interested in another combination?  Please email your choices, or call our office, and we will calculate the best price for you.  Thank you.


Original 1851 Quadruped three volume set. 
Excellent condition.
Asking $12,000
Call for information.
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Audubon American White Pelican

The American White Pelican


Click image to view entire print measuring a full 26 1/4 x 39 1/4.

The detail in a Princeton Audubon print is unmatched.  Are you a collector of Audubon fine art?  Please note that even the evidence of aquatint etching in the original is visible on this re-creation!  Detailed here is The American White Pelican, a limited edition of only 500 measuring a full 26 1/4 x 39 1/4 on extra heavy archival paper.  This spectacular print in now nearly sold out, with only a few numbers remaining. 

You may purchase a printer's proof of this same print, for $400 in our basement while they last. They are identical, except for having no seal or number.  Visit the basement for details.
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WINGS SPREAD HERE!


The beautiful Roseate Spoonbill,
from our Essex Edition. 
Reduced in size to 19 x 23 inches. 

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"...nothing, after all, could ever answer my enthusiastic desires to represent nature, except to copy her in her own way, br>alive and moving!"  - John James Audubon




Above: Small detail from the Princeton Audubon Pileated Woodpecker, perhaps the finest re-creation of Audubon's original ever accomplished.  Now nearly sold out, it's value continues to increase. Click the image for a view of the entire print. Measures 26 1/4 x 39 1/4  Cost: $800

You may purchase the same print, without the seal or number, for $400 in our basement.
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Birds of a feather frame together!  (At a discount!)

Here are combination offers you can mount together.

Audubon Birds of America Louisiana Heron, Princeton Essex Edition.  
Louisiana Heron at left and the Roseate Spoonbill at right measuring 19 x 23 inches.
(Shown with margins cropped - click to see entire image)


    
Great Blue Heron at left and the Hoopping Crane at right measuring 17 1/2 x 26 inches.

These beautiful images are from our reduced-size Princeton Essex New-York Historical Society Edition, which is produced from the original engravings held by the New York museum.  Both shown above measure 19 x 23 inches, and are true prints, whose images are pressed into the highest-quality Essex paper, and are manufactured at America's oldest continuously operated paper mill. The coated paper presents an outstanding display of color.  All four retail for $150 each. 

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Octavo Wild Turkey (Female) $975
Audubon original octavo later editionnnnn
This original print measures 7 x 10 inchess
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"Merely to say, that each of my illustrations is of the size of nature, were too vague ... Not only is every object, as a whole, of the natural size, but also every portion of each object. The compass aided me in its delineation, regulated and corrected each part, ... The bill, the feet, the legs, the claws, the very feathers as they project one beyond another, have been accurately measured." John James Audubon. Ornithological Biography, Volume 1


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Audubon is not just birds!


“Today I saw the swiftest skater I ever beheld; backwards and forwards he went like the wind, even leaping over large air holes fifteen or more feet across, and continuing to skate without an instant’s delay. I was told he was a young Frenchman, and this evening I met him at a ball, where I found his dancing exceeded his skating; all the ladies wished him as partner; moreover a handsomer man I never saw, his eyes alone command attention; his name, Audubon, is strange to me.” — David Pawling, Mill Grove, PA;
January, 1805, on 19-year-old John J. Audubon


Pigeons are beautiful too!

Audubon White Crowned Pigeon or White Headed Pigeon.  Princeton Audubon Limited Double Elephant Edition. 
Purchase the White-crowned Pigeon (left)and get the Band-tailed Pigeon (right) for just $100 more!
Click the images for a whole print view.
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GOT LEGS?
A look at the detail in a Princeton print.
 

Another special Princeton offer ...
The smaller birds, also life size, are often surrounded with more artistry.
Choose any two of the following ten prints for just $250.
All measure 26 1/4 x 39 1/4  (Shown here with margins cropped)

Audubon Columbian Hummingbird Audubon American Goldfinch Audubon Black and Yellow Warbler Audubon Vidors's Warbler Audubon Great Carolina Wren

Mouse over for name of image.  Click for full images and more info.

Audubon Yellow-breasted Chat Audubon Blue Yellow-backed Warbler Audubon Field Sparrow Audubon Bonaparte Flycatcher Audubon House Wren
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Talk about wall presence! 
Frame and mount these magnificent birds together.
 
The Snowy Owl and the Wild Turkey
Both measure about 27 x 39
Discounted combination price $1,000
Owl - Princeton Edition      Turkey - Rare-Prints Edition
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Beauties of the Plains 
   
The Pinnated Grous and the Cock of the Plains
Both measure about 27 x 39
Discounted combination price $700
 Grous - Princeton Edition      Cock - Rare-Prints Edition
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Birds of Prey
          
 
Red-shouldered Hawk & the Fish Hawk or Osprey
Both measure about 27 x 39
Discounted combination price $900
Hawk - Princeton Edition      Osprey - Rare-Prints Edition
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Audubon's favorite bird - The Wood Thrush.

(Just a small detail shown here. Click image for entire view.)
Audubon Wood Thrush

"This bird is my greatest favourite of the feathered tribes of our woods.  To it I owe much," Audubon wrote, and added a lengthy sentence of explication.   "How often has it revived my drooping spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm, as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve the heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness,..."  He concluded, "...how fervently...have I blessed the Being who formed the Wood Thrush, and placed it in those solitary forests..."

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Original Audubon Gold-winged Woodpecker.

Invest in gold!  Own a piece of American natural history!
Make an offer on this original Audubon Havell Gold-winged Woodpecker - $9,000 retail.
Click the image for an expanded view of detail.     Click here to see the entire image.
 

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 Right: The American Flamingo.  26 1/4 x 39 1/4.

Audubon saw several flocks of American flamingos in the Florida Keys in 1832, and while anxious to obtain a specimen from which to make a painting, he was never able to shoot one.  During a stay in London, he wrote repeatedly to his friend John Bachman, in Charleston, South Carolina, asking for a specimen.  In a letter dated October 31, 1837, he said:  "As to flamingos their Eggs &c I fear this is up for me; and this proves to me now that I was a great fool not to have gone to Cuba, or sent a person there expressly..."

Fortunately, it wasn't "up" for him after all.  He finally obtained specimens from Cuba and made the drawing for this Havell plate in London in 1838.

The flamingo's highly specialized manner of feeding is as noteworthy as its dramatic coloring.  The bird plunges its head underwater upside down, then with the upper bill of its sickle-shaped beak serving as a dredge and the tongue as a sieve, it scoops small shellfish from the bottom of shallow lagoons.

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"...nothing, after all, could ever answer my enthusiastic desires to represent nature, except to copy her in her own way, alive br>and moving!"  - John James Audubon

Audubon Pileated Woodpecker.  Nearly sold out. $800.
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