“The reason the prints are so large is that Audubon wanted to present all the birds at life size,” explains Scott Krafft, curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. “This ...

The Audubon's Birds of America exhibition will feature 46 prints from Nation Museums ... dramatic and detailed illustrations." The original book was printed on paper that was nearly a meter ...

Six of Audubon's striking prints are on display in the Museum's Birds ... You can look at (but can't touch) one of the original engraved plates from The Birds of America in the Treasures gallery above ...