{"product_id":"mango-hummingbird-plate-184-audubon-birds-of-america-print","title":"Mango Hummingbird · Plate 184 · Audubon - Birds of America Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMango Hummingbird\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 184 of 435, \"Mango Hummingbird\", from The Birds of America, engraved by Robert Havell Jr between 1827 and 1838.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe hummingbirds.\u003c\/strong\u003e The smallest birds in the work, and the plates where Audubon's botanical drawing is at its finest: the flowers are painted as carefully as the birds feeding at them.\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\u003eRestored from a high-resolution scan of an original folio sheet, with the plate's own caption kept and everything around it removed. Made to order on cotton-fibre archival paper at the one size the plate is cut to, with the mount and frame cut and finished by hand here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Natural History Room","offers":[{"title":"50cm x 61cm","offer_id":55471314207061,"sku":"THENATURALHISTORYROOM184-M-50X61","price":61.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_063728ee-6b42-4a4f-bde4-8e9e316f2ddf.jpg?v=1792653044","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/mango-hummingbird-plate-184-audubon-birds-of-america-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}