How are the Audubon Etchings reproduced?
A. The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York Historical Society and Princeton Audubon Limited, is offering these limited edition prints, produced from the actual original, hand-colored engravings of wildlife artist John James Audubon. The prints are produced using archival inks on heavyweight, acid free, museum-quality stock, toned to match the average color of 165-year-old originals. Princeton Audubon prints are direct-camera, same-size re-creations of Audubon’s renowned folio edition “Birds of America.” “Direct camera” refers to the process utilized to first capture images of the original art. Princeton Audubon actually purchased the antique originals, brought them into its printing plant, and directly transferred the huge original images onto special Kodak film that was itself the same size as the original works. This absolute one-to-one image capture, with no intermediate reductions or enlargements, retained the striking detail and amazing color of Audubon’s classic co
