{"product_id":"virginian-opossum-plate-66-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","title":"Virginian Opossum · Plate 66 · Audubon - Quadrupeds of North America Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirginian Opossum\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured lithograph from John James Audubon and John Bachman's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, issued between 1845 and 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 66 of 150, \"Virginian Opossum\" (Didelphis Virginiana), from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, lithographed and hand-coloured by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia between 1845 and 1848.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCuriosities of the continent.\u003c\/strong\u003e Among the most unusual animals in the work, drawn with the same close attention to texture - quill, scale or fur - as the larger subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America was Audubon's last great work, made with the naturalist John Bachman, who wrote the text. Its 150 plates were issued between 1845 and 1848 on imperial folio sheets, the smaller animals drawn life-size, and lithographed and coloured by hand by J. T. Bowen in Philadelphia. As Audubon's eyesight failed, his son John Woodhouse Audubon drew many of the later plates, travelling as far as Texas to find his subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach plate is a hand-coloured lithograph rather than an engraving: Bowen's printers drew the image on stone and his colourists finished every sheet by brush, which gives the fur its soft depth and makes each impression slightly different from the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from a high-resolution scan of an original imperial folio sheet, printed whole with its lettered caption and plate number. Made to order on heavyweight cotton-fibre archival paper and sold at a single size, mounted with an equal border all round and framed in-house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Natural History Room","offers":[{"title":"46cm x 61cm","offer_id":55493672173909,"sku":"QUADRUPEDS066-M-61X46","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_6bb2fd20-ef18-415c-8708-3dc9aa28c42a.jpg?v=1792780068","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-us\/products\/virginian-opossum-plate-66-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}