Description
The Blue Crane, as Audubon called it, is today known as the Little Blue Heron. This is a stunning composition, with the adult male in the foreground and a white morph juvenile heron in the background. The background depicts the low-country area near Charleston, South Carolina. There is a pale pinkish hue to the sky, indicating it is either dawn or dusk – either way, a beautiful effect.
The Princeton Edition was printed on heavy, acid free, museum-quality paper using specially designed archival inks. This is an “offset lithograph” – not a “giclee” poster or inexpensive inkjet print. It was created by highly-skilled printers using traditional printing presses, and up to a dozen metal printing plates were used in the complex process.
The result is a truly exceptional print of Audubon’s masterful artwork, unlike anything else available on the market. The printing is so fine that it is indistinguishable from the stone lithograph prints created by Audubon in the 18th century. This is a fine art edition strictly limited to 1500 prints. All Princeton’s are hand numbered and bear an embossed seal in the lower margin of the print.
As seen in the New York Times.
