{"product_id":"marsh-hare-plate-18-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","title":"Marsh Hare · Plate 18 · Audubon - Quadrupeds of North America Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarsh Hare\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 18 of 150, \"Marsh Hare\" (Lepus Palustris), 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\u003eThe hares and rabbits.\u003c\/strong\u003e The hares are drawn crouched or at rest in their own country, from the snowshoe hare in its white winter coat to the long-eared hares of Texas and California.\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. Printed on archival cotton-fibre paper when your order is placed, and mounted with a border of equal width on every side so the plate sits centred in the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Natural History Room","offers":[{"title":"46cm x 61cm","offer_id":55493607784789,"sku":"QUADRUPEDS018-M-61X46","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_9a13b462-2a28-4b48-a243-1ce8da7f01c5.jpg?v=1792779646","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/marsh-hare-plate-18-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}