{"product_id":"arctic-tern-plate-250-audubon-birds-of-america-print","title":"Arctic Tern · Plate 250 · Audubon - Birds of America Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArctic Tern\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured engraving from John James Audubon's The Birds of America, drawn between 1827 and 1838.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 250 of 435, \"Arctic Tern\", from The Birds of America, engraved by Robert Havell Jr between 1827 and 1838.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeabirds.\u003c\/strong\u003e Drawn on the Labrador voyage of 1833, on cliffs and open water, and among the coldest and greyest plates in a work otherwise full of southern light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn James Audubon spent twelve years shooting, wiring and drawing every bird he could find in North America, then took the results to Britain because no American engraver could print them at the size he insisted on. The Birds of America was issued between 1827 and 1838 as 435 hand-coloured plates on double elephant folio sheets, close to a metre tall, engraved and coloured in London by Robert Havell Jr. The scale is the point: Audubon drew every species life-size, which is why the flamingo stoops and the heron cranes, and why these compositions still fill a wall the way a photograph rarely does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Havell Jr engraved and hand-coloured the plates from 1827, taking over the work after the first ten. The line is aquatint over etched copper, the colour laid on by hand plate by plate, so no two impressions of the same subject are quite identical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from a high-resolution scan of an original Havell impression, with the binding edge, foxing and scanning marks taken out so only the engraving is printed. Printed to order on cotton-fibre archival paper at one size, with a wide mount cut so the border is even on all four sides, and framed by hand in our own workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Natural History Room","offers":[{"title":"34cm x 49cm","offer_id":55471314895189,"sku":"THENATURALHISTORYROOM250-M-34X49","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_9dbe3422-3109-405b-bd03-b36a058d162d.jpg?v=1792653126","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-us\/products\/arctic-tern-plate-250-audubon-birds-of-america-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}