We are honored to house ‘Audubon’s Fifty Best: Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition’ by John James Audubon, stored in our climate-controlled vault.
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Overview
Title: Audubon Prints
Subject: Art; Birds; Natural history; Ornithology; Printmaking
Description: The Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition of Audubon’s Fifty Best is the first facsimile edition to accurately replicate the quality of the original Audubon edition of Birds of America completed in the 1830’s. Each print states ‘Engraved, printed & colored by R. Havell 1834″ and “Drawn from nature by J. J. Audubon F.R.S.E.L.S.” Each print is made on 310gsm, acid-free, cotton, watercolor paper. Each print embossed by hand with the Oppenheimer Editions stamp and the official Field Museum stamp. The verso of each print is stamped, numbered and signed.
Creator: John James Audubon, 1785-1851; Oppenheimer Field Museum
Source: The Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition of Audubon’s Fifty Best from the Original Havell Engravings of John James Audubon’s Birds of America in the superb Collection of The Field Museum, Chicago.
Publisher: Oppenheimer Editions, L.L.C.
Date: 1999
Contributor: Ben Williams, Field Museum Librarian; R. Havell; The Field Museum, Chicago
Rights: © Oppenheimer Field Museum
Relation: Ornithological Biography, or, An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, by John James Audubon, 1831
Format: Hard case on wooden stand; 5 clamshell cases containing individual prints. Double Elephant Folio prints, approximately 38 x 26 inches.; Limited edition of 150.
Language: English; Latin
Type: image
Identifier: 2019.AU.1-50
Coverage: North America; 1826-1838
Provenance
Unknown donor (on site early 2000s)
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