Audubon Aquatint, Ivory-billed Woodpecker - A Brilliant
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Plate 66.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39" x 25 7/8" sheet, 49 1/2" x 37" framed.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2016 - $122,000; Arader Galleries, 2019 - $113,750.
A Brilliant Composition of an Extinct Bird.
"It is at times a shy bird, so that one can seldom approach it, unless under cover of a tree, or when he happens accidentally to surprise it while engaged in its daily avocations. When seen in a large field newly brought into tillage, and yet covered with girdled trees, it removes from one to another, cackling out its laughter-like notes as if it found delight in leading you a wild-goose chase in pursuit of it" (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Plate 66.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39" x 25 7/8" sheet, 49 1/2" x 37" framed.
Comparable: Arader Galleries, 2016 - $122,000; Arader Galleries, 2019 - $113,750.
A Brilliant Composition of an Extinct Bird.
"It is at times a shy bird, so that one can seldom approach it, unless under cover of a tree, or when he happens accidentally to surprise it while engaged in its daily avocations. When seen in a large field newly brought into tillage, and yet covered with girdled trees, it removes from one to another, cackling out its laughter-like notes as if it found delight in leading you a wild-goose chase in pursuit of it" (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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