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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 242, Snowy Heron        Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"

 

 

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In the early spring of 1832, Audubon and his assistant George Lehman stayed at the home of John Bachman in Charleston, South Carolina.  Audubon wrote of the thousands of snowy egrets that had arrived there by March 25 and "were seen in the marshes and rice fields, all in full plumage."  Soon he painted this magnificent egret, while Lehman added the landscape of a rice plantation in the Carolina low country.

Known to the plume hunters as the "Little snowy," the bird was adorned in breeding season with delicate plumes.  Its lovely recurved back plumes were the milliners' "cross aigrettes," and it was for these nuptial feathers that the heronries were destroyed.  "Where there had been hundreds of egrets in our southern states," Roger Tory Peterson writes, "there soon remained but a few hundred.  The National Audubon society fought for plumage laws, and to meet the emergency hired wardens...Under protection the egrets and all the other long-legged waders have made a spectacular comeback." 

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."