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This print depicts a Florida Key in the distance.
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Booby Gannet (Plate CCVII) Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
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Booby Gannet (Plate CCVII) Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1834, soft creasing, a few pale foxmarks, minor surface soiling, a few short tears at the margin edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Plate: 25 7/8 x 20 5/8 in. (657 x 524 mm)
Sheet: 39 7/16 x 26 11/16 in. (1002 x 678 mm)
Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J Whatman Turkey Mill dated 1834, soft creasing, a few pale foxmarks, minor surface soiling, a few short tears at the margin edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Plate: 25 7/8 x 20 5/8 in. (657 x 524 mm)
Sheet: 39 7/16 x 26 11/16 in. (1002 x 678 mm)