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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON'S DOUBLE ELEPHANT (LIFE SIZE) BIRDS OF AMERICA PRINTS
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The world's only direct-camera Audubon Birds of America facsimiles

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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Plate 256, Purple Heron      Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"

 

 

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Audubon drew both the birds and the background in Florida in April 1832.  When he first saw them in the Keys, he puzzled at their coloration:  "Some of them were as white as driven snow, the rest of a delicate purplish tint, inclining to grey on the back and wings, with heads and necks of a curious reddish colour.  Males and females there were, but they were all of one species..."  He concluded that those with white plumage were immature birds.  He was incorrect, since in this species, coloring depends on the individual and has no relation to either age or sex.  It is dimorphic and displays two color phases, one white, the other purplish blue.  The birds illustrated here are both adults.

The reddish egret 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.

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."