Audubon Aquatint, Trail
AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Trail's Flycatcher, Plate 45.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 5/8" x 25 1/2" sheet.
Provenance: John Vickers Painter Collection.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 12/05/2012 - $2,318; Guernsey's, 5/11/2013 - $1,708.
"The notes of Traill's Fly-catcher consist of the sounds wheet, wheet, which it articulates clearly while on wing. It resides in the skirts of the woods along the prairie lands of the Arkansas river, where alone I have been able to procure it. When leaving the top branches of a low tree, this bird takes long flights, skimming in zigzag lines, passing close over the tops of the tall grasses, snapping at and seizing different species of winged insects, and returning to the same trees to alight" (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Trail's Flycatcher, Plate 45.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 5/8" x 25 1/2" sheet.
Provenance: John Vickers Painter Collection.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 12/05/2012 - $2,318; Guernsey's, 5/11/2013 - $1,708.
"The notes of Traill's Fly-catcher consist of the sounds wheet, wheet, which it articulates clearly while on wing. It resides in the skirts of the woods along the prairie lands of the Arkansas river, where alone I have been able to procure it. When leaving the top branches of a low tree, this bird takes long flights, skimming in zigzag lines, passing close over the tops of the tall grasses, snapping at and seizing different species of winged insects, and returning to the same trees to alight" (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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