Audubon Engraving, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Plate 66. First Edition Engravings with Original Hand Color. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. 39 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches sheet, 49 1/2 x 37 inches framed. Guidance: Arader Galleries', 2016 - $122,000
This is the hardest to find and second most desirable of Audubon?s Extinct Birds...
"I have always imagined, that in the plumage of the beauitful Ivory-billed Woodpecker, there is something very closely allied to the style of colouring of the great VANDYKE. The broad extent of its dark glossy body and tail, the large and well-defined white markings of its wings, neck, and bill, relieved by the rich carmine of the pendent crest of the male, and the brilliant yellow of its eye, have never failed to remind me of some of the boldest and noblest productions of that inimitable artist's pencil"
Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831