Audubon Aquatint Cedar Bird
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Cedar Bird, Plate 43.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 3/4” sheet.
Comparable: Christie's, 2004 - $9,560.
"The appetite of the Cedar-bird is of so extraordinary a nature as to prompt it to devour every fruit or berry that comes in its way. In this manner they gorge themselves to such excess as sometimes to be unable to fly, and suffer themselves to be taken by the hand. Indeed I have seen some which, although wounded and confined in a cage, have eaten of apples until suffocation deprived them of life in the course of a few days. When opened afterwards, they were found to be gorged to the mouth." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
View it on
% from the market value
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Cedar Bird, Plate 43.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 3/4” sheet.
Comparable: Christie's, 2004 - $9,560.
"The appetite of the Cedar-bird is of so extraordinary a nature as to prompt it to devour every fruit or berry that comes in its way. In this manner they gorge themselves to such excess as sometimes to be unable to fly, and suffer themselves to be taken by the hand. Indeed I have seen some which, although wounded and confined in a cage, have eaten of apples until suffocation deprived them of life in the course of a few days. When opened afterwards, they were found to be gorged to the mouth." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography.
% from the market value
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
Similar Items
