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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851)
BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Pied Duck (Plate CCCXXXII)
Labrador Duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1838, circa 1838, with margins, framed
Plate: 21 x 3018 in. (534 x 765 mm.)
Sheet: 2558 x 3818 in. (651 x 968 mm.)
Provenance
The artist.
Victor Audubon, New York.
Property of the City of New York, sold to benefit the Municipal Archives, Reference and Research Fund; Sotheby's New York, 18-19 October, 1985, lot 332. Acquired from the above in 1850.
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above.
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