This marvelous edition of Audubon's Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant handcolored engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double... (展开全部) 作者简介 ··· 约翰.詹姆斯.奥杜邦(John James...
细节 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851).The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories.New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839] 1840-1844. 7 volumes, royal 8so (260 x 165 mm). 500 hand-colored lithographed plates after Audubon by...
Treasury of Audubon Birds: 130 Plates from The Birds of America 《奥杜邦的鸟类作品》 Paperback : 144 pages ISBN-10 : 0486841790 ISBN-13 : 978-0486841793 Product Dimensions : 210 x 276 x 10.16mm | 521.63g Publisher : Dover Publications; Illustrated Edition (April 15, 2020) Language: :...
life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates of various sizes depending on the size of the image. They were printed on sheets measuring about 39 by 26 inches (660 mm).这项工作包含略多于700的北美鸟类
"Birds of America". Plates from the Huntington Library's double-elephant folio are reproduced in color, including the wild turkey, Baltimore oriole, bald eagle, and (once presumed extinct) ivory-billed woodpecker. Vedder provides with each plate a commentary on the unique characteristics of the ...
John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, begun in 1826 and completed 12 years later, comprising 435 huge colour plates of more than a thousand birds, many life-sized, is one of the most ambitious projects in publishing history. In this wonderfully mounted and curated show, the National ...
No project of this size had ever been undertaken successfully in the United States. It was Bowen's work on the plates for Thomas McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America (Philadelphia, [1833]-1844) that first alerted Audubon to the printer's impressive ...
In 1827, he published the first of the color plates of "Birds of America." The 435 plates were completed in 1839. The first edition was known as the "elephant folio" because it was so big (39.37 inches high). Audubon then began the series on mammals, "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of Nor...
The success of his exhibitions would finally lead to the first publication of the book for which he is now best known: Birds of America. Featuring more than 400 plates of his drawings, the four-volume work was printed in London by Havell & Son in 1827 and serialized until 1838. Accompanyi...
Since he portrayed each bird life size, the larger birds often had to be drawn in unusual positions to later fit on the largest copper engraving plates then available, approximately 27 x 39 inches. These copperplates were large, thin, smooth plates of copper. A reverse image or outline of ...