Lot 43
  • 43

John James Audubon (After)

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Description

  • John James Audubon (after)
  • Long-Billed Curlew (Plate CCXXI)
  • sheet 660 by 972 mm 26 1/16 by 38 1/4 in
Hand-colored engraving with etching and aquatint, the colors fresh, by R. Havell, 1834, on wove paper with the J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1834 watermark, with wide margins (stitch holes at the disbound edge), in good condition apart from a few tiny ink losses in the image, three pale fox marks in the background at lower left, the margins with inconspicuous flattened creases, short repaired tears, pale mat and time stain, framed