May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 4,250
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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Barnacle Goose. Plate CCXCVI. Hand-colored engraved plate from the double elephant folio edition of Birds of America. 660x980 mm sheet size; two small spots of light soiling, top edge with rough binding marks, one small tear to bottom edge repaired on verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1836." London: Havell, 1836

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This was a somewhat late addition to Birds of America; Audubon had never actually seen the bird in North America and had only heard of its accidental visits there. He probably drew the preliminary painting in England from museum specimens. Low, A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America, page 157.