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Glossy Ibis, Bien Edition
Glossy Ibis, Bien Edition

Glossy Ibis, Bien Edition

By John James Audubon

Located in New York, NY

Original Audubon chromolithograph of the Glossy Ibis Plate 358 is from the Bien Edition of Birds of

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19th Century Realist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vicinity of Flemington
Vicinity of Flemington

Vicinity of Flemington

By Julius Bien

Located in Florham Park, NJ

James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned

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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bergen, Hudson, and Essex
Bergen, Hudson, and Essex

Julius BienBergen, Hudson, and Essex, 1883

Unavailable

H 43.5 in W 33 in

Bergen, Hudson, and Essex

By Julius Bien

Located in Florham Park, NJ

James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned

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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Egg Harbor and Vicinity (New Jersey)
Egg Harbor and Vicinity (New Jersey)

Egg Harbor and Vicinity (New Jersey)

By Julius Bien

Located in Florham Park, NJ

James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned

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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Monmouth Shore
Monmouth Shore

Julius BienMonmouth Shore, 1883-1889

Unavailable

H 44.5 in W 34.5 in

Monmouth Shore

By Julius Bien

Located in Florham Park, NJ

James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned

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Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Black-Winged Hawk
Black-Winged Hawk

Black-Winged Hawk

By John James Audubon

Located in New York, NY

Original Audubon chromolithograph Black-Winged Hawk from the Bien Edition of Birds of America

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19th Century Realist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Crested Titmouse and Black and White Creeper
Crested Titmouse and Black and White Creeper

Crested Titmouse and Black and White Creeper

By John James Audubon

Located in New York, NY

1858 and 1860, the Bien edition of Audubon’s Birds of America is the physically largest (27 x 40 inches

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1970s Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Purple Martin
Purple Martin

John James AudubonPurple Martin, 1860

Unavailable

H 38.5 in W 26.5 in

Purple Martin

By John James Audubon

Located in New York, NY

Original color lithograph of Purple Martin from John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Bien

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1970s Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Peninsula of Cape May
Peninsula of Cape May

Peninsula of Cape May

By Julius Bien

Located in Florham Park, NJ

James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned

Category

Late 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher

By John James Audubon

Located in New York, NY

James Audubon, The Birds of America, Bien Edition, 1860. Unframed. Image size: 38.5 x 26.75 inches

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1970s Naturalistic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

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American Flamingo /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Bird Litho
American Flamingo /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Bird Litho

American Flamingo /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Bird Litho

By John James Audubon

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "American Flamingo" (Plate 375, No. 75) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Or...

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1840s Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Roseate Spoonbill /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Water Bird
Roseate Spoonbill /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Water Bird

Roseate Spoonbill /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Water Bird

By John James Audubon

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "Roseate Spoonbill" (Plate 362, No. 73) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Or...

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1840s Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

"Bald Eagle", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph
"Bald Eagle", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph

"Bald Eagle", an Original Audubon Hand-colored First Edition Lithograph

By After John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

An original rare and extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "White-headed Sea Eagle or Bald Eagle", No. 3, Plate ...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Snowy Heron /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Snowy Egret Bird
Snowy Heron /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Snowy Egret Bird

Snowy Heron /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Snowy Egret Bird

By John James Audubon

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "Snowy Heron" (Plate 374, No. 75) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-1844 Medium: Original...

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1840s Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Male Whooping Crane: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Male Whooping Crane: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

Male Whooping Crane: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored 1st octavo edition lithograph entitled "Whooping Crane, Male, adult", No. 63, Plate 313 from Audubon's "Birds of America, lithogra...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare: an Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare: an Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare: an Original Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare", No. 1, Plate III, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America",...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Brown Pelican: An Original Audubon 1st Edition Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Brown Pelican: An Original Audubon 1st Edition Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

Brown Pelican: An Original Audubon 1st Edition Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original rare and extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Brown Pelican, Young First Winter", No. 85, Plate 424, fr...

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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Reddish Egrets, Adult & Young: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
Reddish Egrets, Adult & Young: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

Reddish Egrets, Adult & Young: An Original Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Reddish Egret, 1. Adult, Full Spring Plumage 2. Young in Full Spring Plumage Two Years Old", No. 75, Plate 37...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

American Anhinga - Snake Bird /// John James Audubon Ornithology Natural History
American Anhinga - Snake Bird /// John James Audubon Ornithology Natural History

American Anhinga - Snake Bird /// John James Audubon Ornithology Natural History

By John James Audubon

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "American Anhinga - Snake Bird" (Plate 420, No. 84) Portfolio: The Birds of America, First Royal Octavo Edition Year: 1840-184...

Category

1840s Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art
Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art

Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art

By John James Audubon

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "Eared Grebe" (Plate CCCCIV - 404; part No. 81) Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition Year: 1838 Medium: Original Ha...

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1830s Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio

Caribou or American Reindeer: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Caribou or American Reindeer: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

Caribou or American Reindeer: Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored quadruped lithograph entitled "Caribou or American Rein Deer", No. 26, Plate CXXVI, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of Nor...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Curlew Bird and Charleston, SC: Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Curlew Bird and Charleston, SC: Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

Curlew Bird and Charleston, SC: Original 1st Ed. Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original rare and extremely collectible first edition John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Long-billed Curlew", No. 71, Plate 355, from Audubon's "Birds of...

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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving
"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving

"Esquimaux Curlew": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-colored Folio Engraving

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original hand-colored folio edition John James Audubon engraving entitled "Esquimaux Curlew", Folio, Pl. CCVIII", No. 42, Plate 208, from Audubon's "Birds of America". It ...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Engraving

Hummingbirds: Framed Gould Antique Hand-Colored "Rufous-breasted Sabrewing"
Hummingbirds: Framed Gould Antique Hand-Colored "Rufous-breasted Sabrewing"

Hummingbirds: Framed Gould Antique Hand-Colored "Rufous-breasted Sabrewing"

By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a framed hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Campylopterus Hyperythrus" (Rufous-breasted Sabrewing Hummingbird), Plate 51 from John Gould's "A Monograph of the Tro...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Red-throated Diver Bird: Original First Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
Red-throated Diver Bird: Original First Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

Red-throated Diver Bird: Original First Edition Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original rare and extremely collectible first octavo edition John James Audubon hand colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "Red-throated Diver", No. 96, Plate 478, from...

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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Winter Wren

John James AudubonWinter Wren, 1840

$1,140

H 20.5 in W 16.5 in

Winter Wren

By John James Audubon

Located in Columbia, MO

John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in France, where he first took interest in birds and drawing. He came to the U.S. at age 18, and made ma...

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19th Century American Realist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Audubon Bien For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate audubon bien for your needs in our varied inventory. Finding the perfect audubon bien may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 19th Century. On 1stDibs, the right audubon bien is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes beige, gray and white. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in lithograph. A large audubon bien can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller audubon bien, measuring 20.75 high and 20.5 wide, may better suit your needs.

How Much is a Audubon Bien?

The average selling price for a audubon bien we offer is $6,933, while they’re typically $2,700 on the low end and $13,000 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right Prints And Multiples for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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