Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Hoary Marmot, The Whistler , Plate CIII.

Description:

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Hoary Marmot, The Whistler, Plate CIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, New York: J.J. Audubon and V.G. Audubon, 1846. Imperial folio-format hand-colored chromolithograph on wove paper depicting North America's largest ground squirrel on the turf in the foreground, with a second animal popping up from the left, and rolling mountains in the background; edge darkening, marginal smudges, two short marginal closed tears, 27 x 21 1/2 in.
The Hoary Marmot is indigenous to the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, from Washington state, through British Columbia, all the way up to the Bering Strait.
Estimate $300-500


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