The exhibit features some of those original prints that were part of Audubon's "Birds of America" series. "They're very, very rare and sought after," Zacharias said. The exhibit will also come ...

“The reason the prints are so large is that Audubon wanted to present ... is thought to be extinct today (though avid birders still search for it). Audubon’s Birds of America is considered one of the ...

Once the engraving was done, the copper plate could produce many prints of ... combined talents of Audubon and Havell were required to make that possible, and Birds of America, first published ...

Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed as among the best ornithological studies ever produced. “I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, ...

Audubon was the most famous naturalist painter in America. His masterwork, The Birds of America, had been completed five years earlier. Audubon honed his technique and made many of his bird ...

Six of Audubon's striking prints are on display in the Museum's Birds gallery ... You can look at (but can't touch) one of the original engraved plates from The Birds of America in the Treasures ...

The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838, catalogued more than 400 birds in life-size prints. The works captured the avian ...