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You have many choices in Audubon
decorative pictures and common giclees (ink-jet pictures), but very few
in Audubon fine art.
Princeton Audubon Double Elephant prints are said to be the finest
audubon facsimiles ever produced.
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Proper framing will greatly add to your
enjoyment and viewing pleasure. We suggest bringing the print and a
photo of where it will hang to your framer.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird
see the entire print
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Depicted above: Small detail form the Ruby-throated Hummingbird,
a magnificent composition probably painted in Louisiana c. 1825.See
the entire print. Hummingbirds,
found only in the New World, fascinated Americans and Europeans
of Audubon's day. To gratify
this widespread curiosity with a number of views of the
diminutive ruby-throat, he placed ten of them together, although
in nature they are too pugnacious to associate this closely.He
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." $400
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1, The Wild
Turkey Cock,
$600
Rare-Prints Double Elephant Edition
Edition of 1,500, measuring
26 x 39
The
Rare Prints Edition, the only giclee edition sold on our
website
(the only giclee edition
sold on our website!)
is a very carefully
done giclee edition which is unlike all the others.
These are actual documents of original art.
Each image is printed on 330 gram Somerset Velvet paper
with beautiful deckled edges and is a full-size
facsimile of an actual original.
These represent the best
value on the market for Audubon Giclee' reproductions.
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Plate 21, The Mockingbird, $500
Rare-Prints Double Elephant Edition
Edition of 1,500, measuring
26 x 40
Or purchase by phone, 908-510-1621
Here is another beautiful image from The Rare-Prints
Edition.
View the entire Rare Prints Edition
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431, The American
Flamingo, $600
Princeton Audubon Double Elephant
Edition of 1,500, measuring
26 1/4 x 39 1/4
Click here for Audubon plate 431
info
 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 quality of the reproductions
reflects precisely the extraordinary state of the art
craftsmanship Princeton Polychrome Press has
consistently engendered since its inception."
Theodore S. Amussen, Former director of publications and
editor-in-chief, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. (Editor's note: Princeton Polychrome Press is
the predecessor to Princeton Audubon Limited)
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Audubon drew both
the birds and the background in Florida in April
1832.The reddish egret or
Purple Heron inhabits shallow, open salt pans.
When wading, it often rakes the bottom with one
foot to stir up the prey and when pursuing fish,
it has a habit of spreading its wings in a
canopy, then running, hopping and cavorting in a
curious dance.
"The
Princeton Collection represents a remarkable example of
historic accuracy and beauty. No other modern
Audubon edition gives collectors the quality and value
of the Princeton edition. Audubon himself would no doubt
be impressed by the superior workmanship in each print."
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Glen Mullen, former Gallery Manager, Key West Audubon
Gallery.
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Plate
12, The Baltimore
Oriole, $300
Princeton Audubon Double Elephant
Edition of 1,500,
measuring
26 1/4 x 39 1/4
Click here for plate 12
info
This
print, of two male orioles and a female (shown
clinging to the nest), is from a composition
painted in Louisiana in 1822 and completed in
1825. The artist, Joseph Mason, also
worked on the background. More than half a
century earlier, the Swedish naturalist
Linnaeus, in a scientific description of this
orange and black American oriole, had named the
bird in honor of Cecil Calvert, second Baron of
Baltimore, because Lord Baltimore's family
colors were also orange and black. |
 Think outside the nest!
Plate
21, The Grey Fox, $300
Princeton Audubon Edition
21 x 28
Yes, Audubon is not just birds!
Toward the end
of his life, Audubon endeavored to depict all
the known species of North American mammals.
These were published in three sets by J. Bowen
between 1845 and 1848. Known in the trade
as the Imperials, his detailed images measured
22 x 28 inches. An original Imperial Grey Fox
sells for over 25,000 dollars today!
The edition sold here is a direct-camera production on
exquisite Somerset paper.
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Plate 231, Long-billed Curlew
Shown here in protective sleeve
Audubon Havell Original
Double Elephant - 28 x 39
Asking $125,000
908-510-1621 |
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Princeton double elephants are the world's only
direct-camera
folio re-creations and are absolutely exact documents of the original
art. We purchased the originals and physically utilized them
in the re-creation process, making an actual one-to-one transfer of
all the incredible detail and color.
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Our double elephant edition measures a full 26
1/4 x 39 1/4, which is the actual trim size of the antique
170-year-old originals. Most originals used in this effort
were from the private collection of the late David O. Johnson, a
world renowned collector of original Audubon/Havell prints.
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Our exact printing was on a 300 line, well above
the industry standard. The registration is exact.
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Fade-proof inks were specially developed for this
edition. Up to 11 color plates were used.
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Our Mohawk 100% acid-free fine art paper is
recommended by The Library of Congress for archives, and is
specially toned to match the color average of the original james
whatman paper.
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The Princeton Audubon seal is stamped in lower
right corner and the edition number in penciled into the lower
left.
A Certificate of Authenticity is included with each double elephant.
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Interesting
quote from Audubon's youth ... "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 |
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Historical note: Audubon used only Whatman paper for his
engravings. Napoleon wrote his will on Whatman paper as he sat
on the island of St. Helena. George Washington signed state
documents on Whatman paper. Queen Victoria chose Whatman paper
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Princeton Audubon Limited - 2002-2010
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Historical note: Since Audubon
portrayed each bird life size, the larger birds often had to be drawn in
unusual positions to fit on the largest copper engraving plates then
available, approximately 27 x 39 inches.
When setting forth on this great
project, Audubon wrote ...
"...nothing, after all, could ever answer my enthusiastic desires to
represent nature, except to copy her in her own way, alive and moving!"
This is
the great appeal of Audubon prints.
John
James Audubon's compositions are LIFE SIZE AND filled with the drama of
life, or as he himself put it ..."alive and moving!"
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