Yellow-throated Vireo

Lot 115
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 753022
Lot 115 | Yellow-throated Vireo
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$ 1 000 – 1 500
Yellow-throated VireoJohn James Audubon, 1831AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878). Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate CXIX) Vireo FlavifronsAudubon painted this bird while he was working as a tutor for the Pirrie family in northern Louisiana, during the summer of 1821. "In addition to the bird's names, [Audubon] called the Hydrangea by the delightful name of 'Swamp Snow-ball'" (Low, p. 92).Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1831, with margins. Plate size 499 x 315 mm (970 x 642 mm sheet). (Minor soiling to sheet edges, small pale spot in upper left of plate.) Matted and framed.
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