Description:
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Labrador Falcon, Plate CXCVI. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838. Double elephant folio sheet, hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, matted and framed, faded, 36 x 23 1/2 in.
Provenance: from the estate of Dr. James Woodward Wallace, Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, MA.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
Mounted on heavy stock, sheet measures 37 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.; reverse mat burn and darkening to the edges of the sheet; in the bottom left corner, one corner was torn away (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) and was repaired by the mounting, large closed tear to top left; J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark just visible in the surface of the paper.
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