{"product_id":"audubon-birds-1871-mangrove-cuckoo-abt277","title":"Audubon Birds 1871 Mangrove Cuckoo ABT277","description":"\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003eMangrove Cuckoo\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003e6 3\/4 inches by 10 1\/4 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eABT277 $55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003eJohn James Audubon (1785-1851) was born in the French colony of Santa Domingo (later known as Haiti) to a wealthy French sea captain \u0026amp; merchant and a young slave, Jeanne Rabin, who died six months after his birth. Early on, Audubon became passionately interested in nature, avoiding whenever possible the rigors of the French educational system by wandering in the countryside sketching \u0026amp; collecting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003eHe was sent by his father to his plantation Mill Grove in Pennsylvania possibly to avoid conscription into Napoleon’s army.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThere he pursued his love of nature and collecting in a bountiful environment, to the detriment of the business of running his father’s plantation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, 'sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003eWe are pleased to offer hand colored prints from the last edition of the most accessible of all the Audubon works, the quarto Birds of America, published by George R. Lockwood in 1871.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThis edition was produced by the firm which took over the lithographic stones from the Audubons following their bankruptcy. It is the rarest of the quarto editions as the plates were destroyed in a fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"\u003eThe later editions differ from the first quarto edition in that there are added color printed backgrounds on some.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe birds and foliage remain hand colored as in the first edition.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe prints are in wonderful condition on heavy wove paper with no foxing and vibrant hand coloring.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThey represent a great bargain for original Audubon prints. The text pages are included and when overlapped, have been carefully copied.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIt is a great pleasure for us to present this work almost in its entirety with a wonderful array of the top plates at a fraction of the cost of the first edition.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panteek Antique Prints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46096528769093,"sku":"ABT277","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/0830\/6245\/files\/aul277.jpg?v=1792675600","url":"https:\/\/www.panteek.com\/products\/audubon-birds-1871-mangrove-cuckoo-abt277","provider":"Panteek Antique Prints","version":"1.0","type":"link"}