Audubon Aquatint, Yellow Red-poll Warbler

AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Yellow Red-poll Warbler, Plate 145.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
39 3/4" x 26 7/8" sheet.

Comparables: Neal Auction Co., 2011 - $2,688; Christie's, 2004 - $2,629.

Provenance: John Vickers Painter's Deckled Collection, with full uncut margins.

"I most willingly acknowledge the error under which I laboured many years, in believing that this species and the Sylvia palmarum of BONAPARTE, are distinct from each other. To the sound judgment of my good friend JOHN BACHMAN, I am indebted for convincing me that the figure given by the Prince of MUSIGNANO is that of our present bird, at a different period of life, and therefore with different plumage. While at Charleston, in the winter and spring of 1833-4, I became convinced of my error, after examining a great number of specimens, in different states of plumage. All these individuals had the same habits, and uttered the same notes. I may here remark, that the true Sylvia palmarum has not yet been met with in the United States." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).