Audubon Bird Prints
John James Audubon's Birds of America (1827–1838), restored from the original folio engravings — the snowy owl, American flamingo, wild turkey, cardinal and more, at full fine-art resolution.
419 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
The Birds of America
John James Audubon published The Birds of America between 1827 and 1838: 435 hand-coloured plates, engraved by Robert Havell in London from Audubon's watercolours, and printed on double-elephant folio sheets so that even the whooping crane and the wild turkey could appear life-size. Audubon drew every bird from freshly collected specimens wired into lifelike poses, often in the habitat where he found it, which is why these plates still read as portraits rather than diagrams.
What we restored
Our prints come from high-resolution scans of the original Havell plates, cleaned of foxing and scanner artefacts and colour-balanced to the hand-tinted originals, never redrawn. Each bird is available full-bleed, where the plate fills the sheet, and as a captioned specimen edition that keeps the whole plate on a cream ground with the species, Latin name and plate number set beneath it.
Choosing an Audubon print
The upright plates (owls, herons, the flamingo) suit narrow walls and pairs; the wide plates (ducks, shorebirds, the Carolina parakeet) want a sofa or a bed beneath them. Groups of three along one wall, same size and frame, are how the plates were meant to be seen.