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John James Audubon, 1831
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Yellow-throated Vireo
John James Audubon, 1831
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate CXIX)
Vireo Flavifrons
Audubon 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.
John James Audubon, 1831
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate CXIX)
Vireo Flavifrons
Audubon 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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