Audubon "Little Harvest Mouse": A Framed Original Audubon Hand-Colored Folio Lithograph, 1845

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This rare original first edition Audubon hand-colored imperial folio-sized lithograph entitled "Mud Minimus Aud and Bach, Little Harvest Mouse, Males … more This rare original first edition Audubon hand-colored imperial folio-sized lithograph entitled "Mud Minimus Aud and Bach, Little Harvest Mouse, Males and Females, Natural Size" was engraved and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen after a drawing and painting by John James Audubon and published in 1845 in Philadelphia, as plate 65 in Audubon's monumental publication 'The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America'. There were approximately 300 sets of the imperial folio sized quadrupeds produced.

This large hand-colored imperial folio-sized lithograph is printed on cream-colored wove paper. It is presented in a black antiqued wood frame and a cream-colored mat. It is lazed with UV conservation glass. All of the mounting materials are archival. The frame measures 34.5" high by 29.5" wide by 1.5" deep. There are a few tiny, faint spots, as well as short shallow wrinkles in the upper sheet, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. less