Original Audubon Imperial Folio Edition Lithographs of the Quarupeds of North America

After successfully publishing his masterpiece "The Birds of America", with the encouragement and collaboration of his good friend, Rev. John Bachman of Charleston, SC, Audubon and Bachman published the "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" in three volumes during 1845 to 1848 (viviparous means giving birth to live young). The original watercolor paintings of the quadrupeds by Audubon (together with his younger son John Woodhouse who painted some of the quadruped images and his elder son Victor Gifford who drew the backgrounds) were issued as stone lithographs in the Imperial Folio size (~28" x 22"). They employed the eminent lithographer, J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. In this gallery, we present some of these original hand-colored Imperial Folio edition stone lithograph prints.

Please click and enter the page to examine the posted images for each quadruped by moving the mouse cursor over them to see enlarged images. NOTE: The images on the actual prints are much prettier and brighter than what is seen in the images posted here since these very large lithographs are hard to photograph with uniform natural indirect light illumination.

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