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Audubon Original Print 1846 The Common Mouse Volume 2 No 18 Plate 90

$4,500
£3,363.87
€3,880.29
CA$6,300
A$6,657
CHF 3,580.17
MX$79,696.63
NOK 44,855.32
SEK 41,080.96
DKK 28,981.26

About the Item

Titled Mus Musculus, Linn. Common Mouse, Male, Female and Young, Second printing 1846, Plate XC. This illustration is a hand-colored stone lithograph drawn by J.J. Audubon and printed by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Drawn in natural life size, this charming group of mice busily nibble on a colorful orange block of cheese with a blue and white Chinese Export jar in the background. "Audubon’s Quadrupeds represent the most important body of wildlife art of the 19th century. Published between 1845 and 1848, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America was a collaborative project between John James Audubon, his two sons, and the renowned naturalist Reverend John Bachman. Containing 150 prints documenting the four-legged land mammals of North America, the prints were lithographed on imperial folio-size paper and hand-colored by the studio of the distinguished Philadelphia printmaker John T. Bowen." Handsomely matted and framed in a walnut frame. Site line 18 inches tall x 23.50 inches across.

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