[Maine-birds] Audubon prints at New York Historical Society

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This may be better of line but if anybody is going to be in or near NYC in the next 2 months or wants a need to go there, there is an exhibit if Audubon's book and prints of Birds of America. Please se below  

The museum bought them in the late 1800s

Bill Laverty

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Date: March 13, 2013, 4:08:43 PM EDT
Subject: 1(APW) NYC Museum Displaying Audubon's Bird Watercolors
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1(APW) NYC Museum Displaying Audubon's Bird Watercolors

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NYC Museum Displaying Audubon's Bird Watercolors
2013-03-13 20:07:30.855 GMT


    New York (AP) -- The New-York Historical Society is
exhibiting its entire collection of 474 bird watercolors by John
James Audubon for the first time.
    They're being shown chronologically in three exhibitions
over three years. The first group went on view Friday.
    The collection includes 435 watercolors engraved for
Audubon's monumental "The Birds of America." The intricately
detailed, life-size renderings are the naturalist's greatest
work.
    An original edition of Audubon's book, known as the double
elephant folio, is also being shown. Its plates will be turned
weekly.
    The 3 1/2-foot-tall volume features all the avian species
known to Audubon in early 19th-century North America. He sold
the engraved plates in a subscription series.
    The museum purchased all the watercolors, except one, from
the artist's widow in 1863.
    The first exhibition ends May 19.

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