| John James Audubon Prints - Havell Edition |
| Birds of America | |||
| John James Audubon’s renowned The Birds of America (London, 1827-1838) is the single most important work on North American ornithology ever produced. Audubon’s Birds consist of 435 meticulously and artistically hand-colored engravings, each measuring approximately 26” x 37”. The sheet size is commonly referred to as Double Elephant Folio. This tremendous size enabled Audubon to depict even the largest North American birds as life-size. The entire masterpiece took twelve years to complete. Sold by subscription only, the prints were sold in groups or parts of five which were later bound in large leather volumes. The first ten plates were engraved by the firm of William Lizar’s of Edinburgh; when Lizar’s colorists went on strike, Audubon chose Robert Havell Jr., a skillful engraver and talented artist, to complete the publication. The Havell edition, of which it is estimated that 175 complete sets were produced, is the first edition of this work. The aquatint engravings of The Birds of America show Audubon’s deep appreciation of his subjects’ beauty, as well as his complete understanding of their struggle to survive in nature. As a result of Audubon’s comprehensive work, American birds are among the best known and most thoroughly classified in the world. His pioneering studies afford us a glimpse of an unspoiled America, before over-hunting and urban expansion encroached on the wildlife and woodlands that so inspired the man often referred to as “The American Woodsman.” | |||
| Publication City: London Edition: Havell Edition Medium: Hand-colored aquatint, etching and line engraving. Dimensions: 25 7/8 inches x 36 1/2 inches Date: 1827-38 | |||
| SELECTIONS FROM THIS WORK | |||
 3-Toed Woodpecker (Plate CXXXII) details |  American Crossbill (Plate CXCVII) details |  American Crow (Plate CLVI) details |  American Pied Bill Dobchick (Plate CCXLVIII) details |  American Ptarmigan/ Whitetailed Grous (Plate CCCCXVIII) details |  American Robin (Plate CXXXI) details |  American Scoter Duck (Plate CCCCVIII) details |  American Swift (Plate CLVIII) details |  American Water Ouzel (Plate CCCLXX) details |  American White Pelican (Plate CCCXI) details |  American Widgeon (Plate CCCXLV) details |  Bald Eagle (Plate CXXVI) details |  Baltimore Oriole (Plate XII) details |  Bank Swallow/ Violet-green Swallow (Plate CCCLXXXV) details |  Bewicks Wren (Plate XVIII) details |  Black Guillemot (Plate CCXIX) details |  Black-backed Gull (Plate CCXLI) details |  Black-Bellied Darter (plate CCCXVI) details |  Black-bellied Plover (Plate CCCXXXIV) details |  Black-headed Gull (Plate CCCXIV) details |  Black-thoated Green Warbler/ Black Burnian/ Morning Warbler (Plate CCCXCIX) details |  Black-throated Diver (Plate CCCXLVI) details |  Blue-grey Flycatcher (Plate LXXXIV) details |  Brant Goose (Plate CCCXI) details |  Brown-Headed Worm-Eating Warbler (Plate CXCVIII) details |  Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Plate CCLXV) details |  Buffel-headed Duck (Plate CCCXXV) details |  Burrowing Owl/ Little Night Owl/ Columbian Owl/ Short-Eared Owl (Plate CCCCXXXII) details |  Canada Goose (Plate CCI) details |  Canada Warbler (Plate CIII) details |  Canvas-backed Duck (Plate CCI) details |  Carolina Parrot (Plate 26) details |  Chipping Sparrow (Plate CIV) details |  Clapper Rail (Plate CCIV) details |  Common American Swan (Platre CCCCXI) details |  Common Cormerant (Plate CCLXVI) details |  Common Gull (Plate CCXII) details |  Cuvier's Wren (Plate 55) details |  Double-crested Cormorant (CCLVII) details |  Esquimaux Curlew (Plate CCVIII) details |  Evening & Spotted Grosbeak (Plate CCCVXXIII) details |  Ferruginous Thrush (Plate CXVI) details |  Fish Hawk or Osprey (Plate XXXI) details |  Flamingo (Plate CCCCXXXI) details |  Florida Cormoran (Plate CCLII) details |  Foolish Guillemot (Plate CCXVIII) details |  Frigate Pelican details |  Gannet details |  Glossy Ibis (Plate CCCLXXXVII) details |  Golden-Eye Duck details |  Goosander (Plate CCCXXXI) details |  Great Cinereous Shrike or Butch Bird (Plate CXCII) details |  Great Crested Flycatcher (Plate CXXIX) details |  Great Horned Owl (Plate LXI) details |  Great Red-Brested Rail (Plate CCIII) details |  Great White Heron (Plate CCLXXXI) details |  Green Shank (Plate CCLXIX) details |  Harlequin Duck Plate (Plate CCXCVII) details |  Henslow's Bunting (Plate 70.) details |  Hooping Crane (Plate CCLXI) details |  Hooping Crane (Plate CCXXVI) details |  Kildeer Plover (Plate CCXXV) details |  Kittiwake Gull (Plate CCXXIV) details |  Lapland Long Spur (Plate CCCLXV) details |  Lesser Tern (Plate CCCXIX) details |  Lincoln Finch (Plate CXCII) details |  Little Owl (Plate CXCIX) details |  Little Tawny Thrush/ Ptiliogonys Townsendi/ Canada Jay details |  Long-Billed Curlew (Plate CCXXXI) details |  Long-Tailed Duck (Plate CCCXII) details |  Long-tailed or Dusky Grous (Plate CCCLXI) details |  Meadow Lark (Plate CXXXVI) details |  Mississippi Kite (Plate CXVII) details |  Olive-Sided Flycatcher (Plate CLXXIV) details |  Orchard Oriole (Plate XLII) details |  Pied Duck (Plate CCCXXXII) details |  Pin-Tailed Duck (Plate CCXXVII) details |  Pine Grosbeak (Plate CCCLVIII) details |  Prairie Starling (Plate CCCCXX) details |  Purple Martin (Plate XXII) details |  Raven (Plate CI) details |  Red Headed Woodpecker (Plate XXVII) details |  Red-breasted Snipe (Plate CCCXXXV) details |  Red-Winged Starling (Plate LXVII) details |  Republican Cliff Swallow (Plate LXVII) details |  Richardsons Jager (Plate CCLXXII) details |  Roscoes Yellow Throat (Plate XXIV) details |  Roseate Tern (Plate CCXL) details |  Ruddy Duck (Plate CCCXLIII) details |  Ruddy Plover (Plate CCXXX) details |  Rusty Grakle (Plate CLVII) details |  Sharp-Shinned Hawk (Plate CCCLXXIV) details |  Sharp-Tailed Grous (Plate CCCLXXXII) details |  Slender-Billed Guillemot (Plate CCCCXXX) details |  Small Green-crested Flycatcher details |  Snowy Heron or White Egret (Plate CCXLII) details |  Tengmalms Owl (Plate CCCLXXX) details |  Tennessee Warbler (Plate CLIV) details |  Turnstone (Plate CCCIV) details |  Uria Brunnichii (Plate CCXLV) details |  Velvet Duck (Plate CCXLVII) details |  Virginia Rail (Plate CCV) details |  Western Duck (Plate CCCCXXIX) details |  White Heron (Plate CCCXXXVII) details |  White-Bellied Swallow (Plate XCVIII) details |  White-Winged Silvery Gull (Plate CCLXXXII) details |  Willow Grous (Plate CXCI) details |  Wood Ibis (Plate CCXVI) details |  Woodpeckers (Plate CCCCXVII) details |  Yellow Crowned Heron (Plate CCCXXXVII) details | | |
