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(BIRDS.) Audubon, John James. Ruddy Duck. Plate CCCXLIII. Hand-colored lithographed plate from the double elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, on a trimmed sheet measuring 525x780 mm; lightly but evenly toned overall, 250-mm neatly repaired tear extending from top margin into the image in upper left, 145-mm neatly closed tear extending from left margin into image, several short unclosed tears in right margin; matted. Watermarked "J. Whatman 1836"; date partly excised when trimmed. London: Havell, 1836
