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John James Audubon, 1828
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Bald Eagle
John James Audubon, 1828
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – LIZARS, W.H. and HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
White-headed Eagle (Plate XXXI)
Falco leucocephalus
Variant 1. Depicts the American bald eagle feasting on a catfish. "Audubon was dissatisfied with the earlier painting he had done in Missouri in 1820, in which the bird was feeding on a goose; so in London in 1828 he made a new painting with the catfish instead ... Although Audubon was confused about the young Bald Eagle which he painted for plate XI, which he called Bird of Washington, he had the species correct for the bird he painted here (an adult)" (Low, pp. 46-47).
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, dated 1828, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1828. 637 x 950 mm sheet size. (Edges with a little minor light soiling and a couple of closed edge-tears; a few pale spots in upper left corner of sky.) Matted.
John James Audubon, 1828
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – LIZARS, W.H. and HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
White-headed Eagle (Plate XXXI)
Falco leucocephalus
Variant 1. Depicts the American bald eagle feasting on a catfish. "Audubon was dissatisfied with the earlier painting he had done in Missouri in 1820, in which the bird was feeding on a goose; so in London in 1828 he made a new painting with the catfish instead ... Although Audubon was confused about the young Bald Eagle which he painted for plate XI, which he called Bird of Washington, he had the species correct for the bird he painted here (an adult)" (Low, pp. 46-47).
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, dated 1828, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1828. 637 x 950 mm sheet size. (Edges with a little minor light soiling and a couple of closed edge-tears; a few pale spots in upper left corner of sky.) Matted.
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