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"They are true prints, great paper, incredible detail and true colors... simply the finest Audubon facsimiles ever made!" William Steiner, Audubon collector and author of...

Audubon Prints: A Collector's Guide To Every Edition.

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."

The Royal Society of London, to which Audubon belonged as a Fellow, displays Princetons, the world's only Audubon direct-camera capture facsimiles, in their International Conference Center.  We think that's a jolly good recommendation.
The stunning Snowy Owl..  Seen this year in 31 of the 48 states due to a lack of food in their native Artic.  More information about this bird.  Print measures a life-size 26 1/4 x 39 1/4 on archival fine art paper. We sent this print through the rollers of a press a second time to deepen the dark background.  The yellow in the haunting eyes was specially developed.  It doesn't get any better!
   
The brown pelican is a ponderous bird, but with its six-and-one-half-food wingspread has a powerful flight which it alternates with short glides. The bird carries a large pouch under its lower bill and has an appetite for fish as large as the pouch. American children learn of the brown pelican through a well known bit of doggerel that begins: "What a wonderful bird is the pelican-Its beak can hold more than its belly can,..." Audubon Pileated Woodpecker. This is likely the finest of all Audubon reproductions. Audubon wrote of these parakeets, "The woods are the habitation best fitted for them, and there the richness of their plumage, their beautiful mode of flight, and even their screams, afford welcome intimation that our darkest forests and most sequestered swamps are not destitute of charms." In later years he was to write: "Our Parakeets are rapidly diminishing in number, and in some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen." This bird is now extinct. n this painting Audubon attempted, as he wrote, to give "a faithful representation of two as gentle pairs of Turtles [doves] as ever cooed their loves in the green woods. I have placed them on a branch of Stuartia, which you see ornamented with a profusion of white blossoms, emblematic of purity and chastity."
   








Rare uncolored Sandhill Crane, just as it pulled from the engraving plate. These uncolored prints are extremely rare and beautiful in their own right as they clearly show the mastery of the engraving done by Robert Havell, Jr. without the masking of the aquatint seen on the sheets that were colored, sold and bound into volumes. There are no binding holes.

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Got feathers? Invest in the past with fine art from calmer times.


Pinnated Grous - Uniquely Audubon.  26 1/4 x 39 1/4
 Archival acid-free fine art paper.  This is the world's only direct-camera capture facsimile of the original, which we purchased in order to produce this exact document of Audubon's incredible size of life artistry.  Create new memories with fine art from calmer times.

 
Did you know that Audubon generally composed only the birds, and left the backgrounds and flora to his assistants?  However, this print of the Pinnated Grous (now extinct) is the only one of Audubon's 435 compositions where he accomplished all three elements himself, making this print a must for any Audubon collector.  Click the pic for detail.  Click here for more information.
HISTORICAL NOTE:  Between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon, brilliant artist and naturalist, published in London, England, in his own style, a series of 435 large-sized, hand-colored etchings with aquatints in a folio entitled The Birds of America. These were reproduced primarily by Robert Havell and Sons from Audubon’s watercolor studies that he had earlier composed during his several journeys throughout the young United States.  Looking back, Audubon wrote ... "Having studied drawing for a short while in my youth under good masters, I felt a great desire to make choice of a style more particularly adapted to the imitation of feathers than the drawings in water colours that I had been in the habit of seeing, and moreover, to complete a collection not only valuable to the scientific class, but pleasing to every person, by adopting a different course of representation from the mere profile-like cut figures, given usually in works of that kind." 

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 produced by Princeton. Princeton double elephant prints, the same size as life, are also exceptional works of fine art and were produced by the late Master Printer 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.




Original Octavo
1st Edition
Brown Pelican
7 x 10

 
Original Octavo
1st Edition
Wood Ibis
7 x 10

 
Original Octavo
1st Edition
Iceland Falcon
7 x 10

 
Click here for original Audubon Royal Octavo Birds

 Recent additions: Original Havell Summer or Wood Duck, Wild Turkey (Female),
Black Warrior, Long-billed Curlew.  Bien American Flamingo.

The figure you will see approaching from the bottom right, is said by many to be a depiction of Audubon himself. Like Hitchcock, Audubon inserted himself into his oils from time to time, but it is unknown if he ever did so with the engravings.
Limited to 1,500 prints worldwide, The Princeton Audubon Double Elephant Edition is said to be the finest of all Audubon editions. Note the detail when you enlarge the image at left of The Snowy Heron. Princeton actually purchased the originals and physically utilized them in the reproduction process. The prints you see above are in fact the world’s only direct-camera captures of the actual originals, from which they can be differentiated by the edition number penciled in the lower left, and the Princeton Audubon seal in the lower right. Click here for an example. At checkout, you may message us that such identifying marks be placed only on the Certificate of Authenticity, and not on the print.

View all of our double elephant (full-size) fine art prints

New:  Reduced-size Great Blue Heron!
New:  Reduced-size Louisiana Heron!
New:  Reduced-size Roseate Spoonbill!
New:  Reduced-size Hooping Crane!


Shopping cart has Paypal option, discounts for multiple selections, and accepts code PRINCETON for a courtesy coupon offer.  You may also order by phone - 908-510-1621. Selected prints are also available through The New York Times, the Key West Audubon Gallery, and The Taylor Clark Audubon Gallery.

 


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As seen in The New York Times.
INDEX TO OUR PRINTS
 1) Princeton Full-size Edition
2) Rare Prints Full Size Edition
3) Princeton Essex Edition
4) Original Audubon Prints
     Audubon Havells
     Audubon Octavo Birds
     Audubon Imperials
    Audubon Octavo Quads
     Audubon Biens
 5) Original Gould Prints
6) Quadruped Reproductions
7) Antique Amsterdams
8) Antique Abbevilles
9) Browse our Basement
 Original Octavo 1st edition
Great White Heron 
Only 10" wide, but this rare print is a large piece of American history.


 

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 We feature The Princeton Audubon Double Elephant Edition - The world's only direct-camera full-size edition.  Princeton purchased the antique originals themselves and physically utilized them to create these exact documents of Audubon's originals.
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Purple Heron or Reddish Egret - Click
26 1/4 x 39 1/4
 Princeton Full-size Edition

 

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 Today's featured Originals

Lizars/Havell Female Turkey
 Whatman watermark
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$35,000  908-510-1621

Also, Bien Flamingo, $25,000

Octavo Ocelot or Leopard Cat
7 x 10 inches  $775

 


Octavo Prairie Wolf
7 x 10 inches  $500

 


Octavo Black-crowned Night Heron
7 x 10 inches  $1,500
Royal Octavo plate 363

 


Original Imperial Bison 
21 x 28  $22,500


Original John Gould Glowing Puff-leg
22 x 15 1/4  $1,300

 Original Gould Prints
 Shopping cart has Paypal option, discounts for multiple selections, and accepts code PRINCETON for a courtesy coupon offer.  You may also order by phone - 908-510-1621. Selected prints are also available through The New York Times, the Key West Audubon Gallery, and The Taylor Clark Audubon Gallery in Louisiana.
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