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Year

of payments

Plate and print numbers Total Engravings
W.H. Lizars

July 1827/1828

    Print numbers 1 through 3 plate numbers 1-9 =

    8 prints each plate times 3 numbers = 24 + 9 =

      9

      + 24

    = 33 total engraved prints by Lizars

    Havell thus forth

    1827

Print numbers 3 through 5 plate numbers 11-25 =

Plate Numbers 11-25 equals

    = 28 total engraved prints

    1828

Print numbers 6 through 10 plate numbers 26-50=

8 prints each plate number multiply

    = 96 total engraved prints

    1829

Print numbers 11 through 15 with 8 prints each Numbers

8 prints each part number

    = 96 total engraved

    1830

Print numbers 16 through 20 with 8 prints each part with plates 76 through 100

    = 96 total engraved

    1831

Print numbers 21 through 25 with 8 prints each part with plates 101 through 125

    = 70 total engraved

    1832

Print numbers 26 through 31 with 8 prints each part with plates 126 through 155

    = 145 total engraved

    1833

Print numbers 32 through 37 with 8 prints each part with plates 156 through 185

    = 145 total engraved

    1834

Print numbers 38 through 47 with 8 prints each part with plates 186 through 235

    = 441 total engraved

    1835

Print numbers 48 through 58 with 8 prints each part with plates 236 through 290

    = 540 total engraved

    1836

Print numbers 59 through 68 with 8 prints each part with plates 291 through 340

    = 441 total engraved

    1837

Print numbers 69 through 80 with 8 prints each part with plates 341 through 400

    = 649 total engraved

    1838

Print numbers 81 through 85 with 8 prints each part with plates 401 through 435

    = 136 total engraved

Total engravings of Double Elephant folio published in September in 1838

    2883 prints were hand colored and published

Rembember Lizars created for Audubon the first 2 numbers and therefore belonging to him 1827

    33 prints published only

Robert Havell Jr. created only 85 numbers as stated in the Waldemar Fries, 1973

the Double Elephant Folio

"Dates of Robert Havell publication of 85 numbers 1838 published by John James Audubon"

    Prints engraved copper by Robert Havell are all Double Elephant Folio Hand colored etchings and then published.