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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Great Tern (Plate CCCIX)
Sterna hirundo
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1836, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1836, with margins, framed
191⁄2 x 151⁄4 in. (49.5 x 38.6 cm) plate on 381⁄8 x 253⁄4 in. (97 x 65.5 cm) sheet
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Depicts a male tern in spring plumage, diving against a background of sky. "Audubon made a similar painting in 1821, which is in the New-York Historical Society. He made a better version in 1834, which is this one" (Low, p.162).

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