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Audubon Bowen Edition Pl. 30 Cotton Rat | By Oppenheimer Editions

Name: Audubon Bowen Edition Pl. 30 Cotton Rat | By Oppenheimer Editions
Brand: Joel Oppenheimer Inc
SKU: OFQ-030
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $500.00.Current price is: $350.00.

Oppenheimer Field Museum Print | circa 2001 | Limited Edition of 150 | Double-elephant folio | 22 x 28 inches

SKU: OFQ-030 Category: Quadruped Imperial Bowen Edition – Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Audubon Bowen Edition Pl. 30 Cotton Rat | By Oppenheimer Editions.

Created from the exquisite folio of The Viviparous Quadrupeds housed in Chicago’s prestigious Field Museum rare books collection, this fine art facsimile captures the unique character of this majestic creature. As one of Audubon’s most sought-after quadruped images, this print will be a cherished adornment in any environment or collection.

About the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

Audubon’s Quadrupeds represent the most important body of wildlife art of the 19th century. Published between 1845 and 1848, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America was a collaborative project between John James Audubon, his two sons, and the renowned naturalist Reverend John Bachman. Containing 150 prints documenting the four-legged land mammals of North America, the prints were lithographed on imperial folio-size paper and hand-colored by the studio of the distinguished Philadelphia printmaker John T. Bowen.

Produced in partnership with the Field Museum of Natural History, this museum-sanctioned edition offers exacting replicas of Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America as modern Oppenheimer Editions prints. Executed to exacting standards, this edition offers Audubon’s 50 best quadrupeds as limited-edition fine art prints made with the finest quality archival pigments on rag watercolor paper.

About John James Audubon

America’s most revered artist-naturalist, John James Audubon (1785—1851), is renowned for his extraordinary undertaking to record The Birds of America & The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. The images he created are icons of 19th-century art and capture the nascent stages of American natural history. Audubon’s muti-decade venture resulted in the publication of his monumental folio The Birds of America which documented over 700 bird species on 435 plates. In a similar manner and with the help of his two sons and his friend Reverend John Bachman, Audubon later produced The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, which contained 150 plates depicting the mammals of North America. Audubon’s folios were seismic in the fields of ornithology and mammalogy and set a new precedent for natural history illustration.

About Oppenheimer Editions

Established in 1999, our publishing company Oppenheimer Editions was developed in order to produce modern facsimiles of historic works of art. Marrying cutting-edge digital printing technologies with canonical works of art, Oppenheimer Editions has partnered with prestigious museums to make their holdings accessible to the public as fine art prints. Works from the New-York Historical Society’s unrivaled collections of John James Audubon’s watercolors and the Hudson River School paintings are examples of art that otherwise would be unobtainable.

Among the institutional collections we have partnered with are the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Our Oppenheimer Editions prints are not mere reproductions. Rather, they are limited-edition fine art prints made with the finest quality archival pigments on rag watercolor paper and executed to exacting standards.

For more information about Audubon Bowen Edition Pl. 30 Cotton Rat | By Oppenheimer Editions, email us at [email protected] or check out our articles Audubon’s Imperial Folio, Visualizing the Human Impact on the Natural World in Audubon’s Quadrupeds, and What is a Lithograph? A Practical Guide to Understanding and Identifying Lithographic Prints.

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Weight	0.25 lbs
Dimensions	22 × 28 × 0.125 in
Artist	John James Audubon
Publication Title	The Viviparous Quadruped of North America – Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition
Type of Artwork	Oppenheimer Editions
Medium	Giclée
Creation Date	2001
Subject	Animals
Associated Museum	Field Museum of Natural History

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