John James Audubon

American Crow 1858 Chromolithograph by J.J. Audubon Plate, Julius Bien Edition

1858

American Trotting Horses No.1 is from the series “The World Of Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis...

Ardetta Pusilla (Minute Bittern) is a hand colored lithograph  by John Gould and Henry C. Richter. From the Birds of Australia 1849-1883...

Blue Grosbeak is an original chromolithograph from the rare Bien edition 1860 by J.J. Audubon and shows a male and female adult Grosbeak with a young Grosbeak perched on the edge of the nest. This group of colorful birds are seen on a Dogwood cornus florida tree. This print is in good condition. The paper is evenly age toned throughout. The ” Birds of America” by John James...

Le Vacher ( The Herdsman ) by Armand Coussens shows the herdsman with a cow in the foreground and another cow that we can barely see standing behind the first cow. The cow looks...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Prairie Wolf", No. 15, Plate LXXI, 71 from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America". It was drawn...

This is an original first octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "American Oyster Catcher, Male", No. 65, Plate...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Washington Sea Eagle", No. 3, Plate 13, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It was lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen and published in Philadelphia between 1856-1871. It depicts an adult male sea eagle perched on a rock. This is an excerpt from Audubon's own description of this magnificent eagle, which includes how he came up with the name "Washington Sea Eagle": "The name which I have chosen for this new species of Eagle, “The Bird of Washington,” may, by some, be considered as preposterous and unfit; but as it is indisputably the noblest bird of its genus that has yet been discovered in the United States, I trust I shall be allowed to honour it with the name of one yet nobler, who was the saviour of his country, and whose name will ever be dear, to it. To those who may be curious to know my reasons, I can only say, that, as the new world gave me birth and liberty, the great man who ensured its independence is next to my heart. He had a nobility of mind, and a generosity of soul, such as are seldom possessed. He was brave, so is the Eagle; like it, too, he was the terror of his foes; and his fame, extending from pole to pole, resembles the majestic soarings of the mightiest of the feathered tribe...

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal first octavo edition lithograph entitled "Golden-winged Woodpecker, 1. Male, 2. Female2", No. 55...