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FEATHER YOUR NEST WITH Art from Calmer Times JOHN JAMES AUDUBON'S DOUBLE ELEPHANT (LIFE SIZE) BIRDS OF AMERICA PRINTS Unframed limited editions, heavy archival fine art paper, direct-camera (High definition), pencil-numbered, stamped, absolutely stunning! Want the best deal? Multiple purchases? Call us at 908-510-1621 or simply email us your choices and you will recieve a no obligation discounted PayPal proposed invoice for your consideration. Nothing to lose. We talk Turkey! |
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Bill Steiner, author of Audubon Prints: A Collector's Guide to Every Edition regarding Princeton double elephants, "They are true prints - great paper, incredible detail and true colors. Simply the finest Audubon facsimiles ever made!" |
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Special award: In Audubon's day, Philadelphia was the center of publishing in the young United States. Today it is the headquarters of Neographics, a professional Graphic Arts Association of printers and lithographers from the surrounding 62 county area. In 1987, the print you are looking at won their "Nth" award, or Best in Show. Some say it may be the finest Audubon re-creation ever produced. |
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Plate 311, American White Pelican $800 Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4" |
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(Edition of 500) Nearly sold out. |
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Click small images to view the great detail in this stunning print. Based on a composition painted perhaps in Florida in 1831 or 1832. Landscape artist, George Lehman, worked on the background. The white pelican, with a wingspread of nine feet, does not plunge for food like the brown pelican, but fishes as it swims along, using the large bag that hangs from he lower part of its bill as a dip-net. It often gathers in groups for cooperative fishing. It nests for the most part far inland in the western half of the continent. Audubon wrote: "Ranged along the margins of the sand-bar, in broken array, stand a hundred heavy-bodied Pelicans...Pluming themselves, the gorged Pelicans patiently wait the return of hunger. Should one chance to gape, all, as if by sympathy, in succession open their long and broad mandibles, yawning lazily and ludicrously...But mark, the red beams of the setting sun tinge the tall tops of the forest trees; the birds experience the cravings of hunger...they rise on their columnar legs, and heavily waddle to the water...And now the Pelicans...drive the little fishes toward the shallow shore, and then, with their enormous pouches spread like so many bag-nets, scoop them out and devour them in thousands."
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