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Volumes of John James Audobon's The Birds of America on climate-controlled shelves. This monumental work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates. Each sheet measures 39 by 26 inches. It took more than 14 years of field observations and drawings to bring the project to completion. The total cost was $115,640 (over $2 million in 2017 dollars). It is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced. Although 400 copies of the four-volume set were made, just 100 original sets survive. Some of the original copper plates were destroyed in a fire in 1845. Lucy Audobon tried to give the plates to the U.S. government's National Museum (now the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History), but the government wasn't interested. She put the plates up for sale to bidders about 1868, and no one wanted them. She sold most of the plates for scrap in 1871. Just 79 of the plates exist today, most of them in museums. |
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| Author | Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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