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Roseate Spoonbill, plate 321 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon, in a dark wood frame on the wall of a room

Natural history prints at the size of the original

Roseate Spoonbill, John James Audubon, plate 321Shown framed. Frame not included.$725View this print

Made from the originals, in a numbered edition of 250.From $165, import duties included.

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By artist

15 artists and 53 publications, from Merian’s Surinam to Piranesi’s Rome.

All artists

John James Audubon

1785–1851435

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

1759–184098

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720–1778154

Daniel Giraud Elliot

1835–1915277

Maria Sibylla Merian

1647–171772

John Gould

1804–18811,186

Karl Bodmer

1809–1893164

Robert John Thornton

1768–183730

François Levaillant

1753–182458

Edward Donovan

1768–183760

Cornelius Nozeman

1720–1786131

Hermann Schlegel

1804–188440

Johann Michael Seligmann

1720–176258

Jean Théodore Descourtilz

1796–185560

Thomas Brown

1785–18622
Gies Pluim at a table in the Teylers Museum library with plates from The Birds of America
Gies Pluim, founder of Heritage PrintsWith the Audubon plates in the library of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem

From the museum original

Since 1992 Heritage Prints has published facsimiles made from the originals themselves. The Birds of America comes from the complete set that Victor Gifford Audubon sold to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem in 1833.

  1. A Cruse scanner lighting a sheet on its table

    Scanned from the original

    Many originals are scanned inside the Teylers Museum, on a Cruse fine-art scanner, so that the facsimile keeps the size and detail of the sheet.

  2. Two people in white gloves checking a proof of Audubon’s Roseate Spoonbill

    Proofed by eye

    A colour lithographer compares proofs on the printing paper with the original until the colours match.

  3. Corner of a print with the pencil number 20/250 and the round Heritage Prints blind stamp, below the engraved line by R. Havell, 1834

    Numbered and embossed

    Each print is numbered from the edition of 250 and receives our blind stamp and a certificate of authenticity.

How a print is made
An open Solander box with the title page and a plate of Elliot’s A Monograph of the Felidae, a certificate and white gloves
A Monograph of the FelidaeElliot, the complete set in a Solander box

Complete sets in a Solander box

Every plate of a publication, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original. Sets are available for publications such as Audubon’s The Birds of America, Redouté’s Les Roses, Elliot’s Family of the Cats and Merian’s Metamorphosis.

Or compose your own: choose your favourite plates by one artist, as many as you like, and we make the box to measure, with your name in gold on the lid.

Limited to 50 sets of each publication.

Holding up Audubon’s Wild Turkey, plate 1 of The Birds of America

Questions and service

“If you have any questions, we are more than happy to help.”

Wilma Salome, Heritage Prints

Write to info@heritage-prints.com and we will be in touch.

Galleries, interior designers and selected retailers work with us through our trade program, with a trade discount and personal advice.

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