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Thursday, October 18, 2018
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2603 Timmons Ln
Houston, TX 77027 -
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Silent Auction
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7:30 - 9:30 PM
Dinner and Program
For more information and details on supporting this event, please contact
Zineera Seth
Phone: 713-932-1639 x 106
Email:
zseth@houstonaudubon.org
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| Description of Item |
Consider adding this authentic and stunning John James Audubon Bien Edition print of the Red-headed Duck to your art collection. "At New Orleans, this bird is commonly known by the name of 'Dos Gris.' It arrives there in great flocks, about the first of November, and departs late in April, or in the beginning of May. On the lakes Borgne, St. John, and Ponchartrain, it is very abundant, keeping in large flocks, separate from the other species." wrote John James Audubon about Plate 322 titled Red-headed Duck. Produced between 1858 and 1860, the Bien edition of John James Audubon’s "The Birds of America" is the largest and most valuable color plate book ever published in America, and the rarest of all John James Audubon folios. Also on sheets measuring 26 1/2 by 39 inches, called double-elephant, this edition of the Red-headed Duck represents one of the finest examples of early large-scale color printing. The new technique of chromolithography was perceived as an advancement in printmaking technology that promised to achieve effects entirely different from engraving. This print is accompanied by a recent appraisal allowing the buyer to be confident not only of authenticity but value. |
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