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In The New World, Birds Of America Was Wildlife Art's First Real Magnum Opus

There's A Harrowing Story Behind The Surviving Plates of John James Audubon

Unequalled and unmatched, the importance of John James Audubon's The Birds of America needs no elaboration. As a marriage of natural history, fine art execution, compelling composition, and timing, the complete volume—just 120 sets are now known to exist—is one of wildlife art's greatest masterpieces. 

For the record, artist-naturalist Alexander Wilson was the first to compile an encyclopedic overview of birds in the New World.  But it certainly doesn't detract from the quality and scope of Audubon's ambitious achievement.

The 435 images in The Birds of America original folio, exquisitely color printed from copper

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