About Susan Rhein Fine Art
Susan Rhein Fine Art is based in Tarpon Springs, Florida. This site was built to bring these beautiful prints to you
wherever you might be located. Your satisfaction with these prints is very important and we guarantee you will be satisfied with your purchase or
your money will be refunded upon return of the item.
If you happen to be planning a visit to Tarpon Springs and would like to see the artwork in person, please contact us to schedule an appointment. In addition, several framed works from Susan Rhein Fine Art are for sale in the downtown Historic District of Tarpon Springs at the Court of Two Sisters.
Susan Rhein Fine Art is a member of the American Historical Print Collectors Society. Susan also works as a volunteer docent at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida.
We will be glad to provide additional information and pictures for any item you may be interested in purchasing. Please visit our
Contact Us page to contact us.
About John James Audubon
Audubon was born in Haiti on April 26, 1785 and upon his arrival in America, he began his ascendancy into painting, cataloguing, and
describing the birds of North America. Audubon attempted to paint and describe all the birds of America and became this country’s
dominant wildlife artist. One of his first major undertakings was his Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, and is
still today considered a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley,
are measured.
After his life-size Birds of America was completed, Audubon wanted to create a smaller edition of the same thing to be able to reach
a more varied set of subscribers. He began work on the Royal Octavo Edition of the Birds of America and completed this massive work,
covering 500 hand colored plates all set in their natural surroundings, in just over four years. He originally sold the individual plates
in 100 sets of five wrapped plates. Upon purchasing the one hundred sets of five plates, the subscriber then had the plates bound into a
binding of his or her choosing. Only 1200 seven volume sets were published in the first edition.
John James Audubon died on January 27, 1851 at the age of 65.
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