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Plate 47, Ruby-throated Hummingbird          Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"

 

 

Audubon Ruby-throated Hummingbird. 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.

These birds were probably painted in Louisiana c. 1825.

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." 

 

Princeton Audubon prints are far beyond mere reproductions. Princeton (formerly Princeton Polychrome Press) earned an enviable nationwide reputation by reproducing fine art prints for, among others, The National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New-York Historical Society, and The Detroit Institute of Arts.  The finest reproductions of Picasso and Andrew Wyeth works were done by Princeton.  Princeton double elephant prints, the same size as life, are also exceptional works of fine art and were produced by the same Master Printer, the late David O. Johnson of Princeton New Jersey, who was also one of the world's foremost collectors of the antique Audubon originals.  Princetons are thus the real deal in Audubon fine art, the world's only direct-camera Audubon facsimiles.

Chris Lane of the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: "...of all the full-size facsimiles of Audubon's prints, those from Princeton Audubon Limited 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."