Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie Starling, Plate CCCCXX.

Description:

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie Starling, Plate CCCCXX. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838.
Double elephant folio sheet, hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, matted and framed, possibly trimmed down, not examined out of frame, 22 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. sight; frame size 34 x 25 in.

Provenance: From the Estate of Samuel Parkman Shaw, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts.
Estimate $700-900

Reverse mat burn to areas not visible in the current mat. Sheet measures 31 3/4 x 22 3/4; J. Whatman watermark, 1838.


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