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The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 26½ × 39¼ in, original size
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$475
Limited edition of 250
€425 incl. VAT in the EU
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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of The Birds of America, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
Two Passenger Pigeons meet bill to bill: the female leans down from a twig to feed the male, who stretches up from a lichen-spotted branch below, his breast a deep rose-red and his long tail spread. Naturalists have criticised the pose ever since: a pair would have sat side by side, and the male would have passed the food. Audubon knew the birds by the million. In 1813, on the road to Louisville, he watched a flock darken the noon sky like an eclipse. A hundred and one years later, in 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Passenger Pigeon (Columba migratoria) is plate 62 of The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1827–1838). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 26½ × 39¼ in (67 × 100 cm).
About the original
John James Audubon (1785-1851) published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, printed on Double Elephant Folio sheets so that every bird could be shown at life size.
On 26 August 1833 Victor Gifford Audubon sold a complete set to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which still keeps it. Heritage Prints makes its facsimiles from that set, at the size of the original sheet.
- Title
- The Birds of America
- Published
- 1827-1838
- Format
- Double Elephant Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 435 prints
