Sold for:
$34,440
$34,440
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Long Billed Curlew. Plate CCXXXI. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838. Double-elephant folio hand-colored engraving, printed on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper watermarked 1834; male and female birds in the foreground, with the city of Charleston, South Carolina in the background; faded, with losses mainly to the greens in the marsh weeds and the blues in the sky; the birds themselves a russet brown; spotting, framed, the sheet 37 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-18
