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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851)
BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Great Marbled Godwit (Plate CCXXXVIII)
Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1836, circa 1836, with margins, framed
Plate: 1312 x 2118 in. (343 x 536 mm.)
Sheet: 2512 x 38 in. (648 x 965 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 238. Acquired from the above in 1850.
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above.
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