AUDUBON JOHN JAMES Summer or Wood Duck Plate CCVI

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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Summer or Wood Duck. Plate CCVI. Hand-colored engraved and aquatint plate from the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon's Birds of America, watermarked: "JWhatman / 1836". On full folio sheet, 37 1/2 x 25 inches; hand-coloring slightly faded, few small edge chips very expertly repaired. London: Havell, 1834

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An iconic Audubon composition, carefully balancing four large birds against the backdrop of a sycamore tree. The final image took around four years of intermittent work to complete and involved numerous rearrangements. Low, A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America, page 125.