{"product_id":"texan-skunk-plate-53-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","title":"Texan Skunk · Plate 53 · Audubon - Quadrupeds of North America Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTexan Skunk\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 53 of 150, \"Texan Skunk\" (Mephitis Mesoleuca), 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 weasel family and its neighbours.\u003c\/strong\u003e Martens, weasels, skunks and their relations are drawn in characteristic poses, alert on a branch or turning at the mouth of a den, with the colouring of each coat carefully observed.\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\u003eTaken from a high-resolution scan of an original folio plate, with Bowen's hand colouring left exactly as it was laid. 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":55493661294933,"sku":"QUADRUPEDS053-M-46X61","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_ae4ff8ea-bb7c-40b4-b28b-f526158e026c.jpg?v=1792779949","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/texan-skunk-plate-53-audubon-quadrupeds-of-north-america-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}