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Blue Jay (Plate CII) Cyanocitta cristata
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Blue Jay (Plate CII)
Cyanocitta cristata
Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J Whatman dated 1830, the blue slightly mottled, a thin and unobtrusive scratch through the subject at right, creasing in the margins, minor surface soiling, a few short tears at the margin edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Plate: 25½ x 20¼ in. (648 x 514 mm)
Sheet: 38 7/8 x 26 3/16 in. (988 x 665 mm)
Cyanocitta cristata
Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J Whatman dated 1830, the blue slightly mottled, a thin and unobtrusive scratch through the subject at right, creasing in the margins, minor surface soiling, a few short tears at the margin edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Plate: 25½ x 20¼ in. (648 x 514 mm)
Sheet: 38 7/8 x 26 3/16 in. (988 x 665 mm)