Audubon Aquatint, Reddish Egret or Purple Heron
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Reddish Egret or Purple Heron, Plate 256.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
25 1/4” x 37 1/2” sheet, 37” x 29 1/2” framed.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2013 - $122,000; Arader Galleries, 2019 - $90,000.
It is a more plump bird for its size than most other Herons, and in this respect resembles the Night Heron and the Yellow-crowned species, but possesses all the gracefulness of the tribe to which it belongs. In walking it lifts its feet high, and proceeds at a quiet pace, but sometimes briskly; it alights with ease on trees, andwalks well on larger branches. It rarely feeds from the edges of the water, but resorts to the shallows of the extensive mud or sand flats, so numerous about the keys.
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Reddish Egret or Purple Heron, Plate 256.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
25 1/4” x 37 1/2” sheet, 37” x 29 1/2” framed.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2013 - $122,000; Arader Galleries, 2019 - $90,000.
It is a more plump bird for its size than most other Herons, and in this respect resembles the Night Heron and the Yellow-crowned species, but possesses all the gracefulness of the tribe to which it belongs. In walking it lifts its feet high, and proceeds at a quiet pace, but sometimes briskly; it alights with ease on trees, andwalks well on larger branches. It rarely feeds from the edges of the water, but resorts to the shallows of the extensive mud or sand flats, so numerous about the keys.