![AUDUBON, John James. Six of Audubon's artist's brushes. Mounted in a green silk portfolio with label 'Audubon relics.' [Laid-in:] The Monthly American Journal of Geology. Vol. I, no. 12. Philadelphia, 1831. Containing Audubon's letter to G.W. Featherstonhaugh concerning his visit to Charleston. Provenance: Mrs. Grace Phillips Johnson (1877-1972, her sale Christie's New York, 26 May 1977, lot 104).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01770_0132_000(011224).jpg?w=1)
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AUDUBON, John James. Six of Audubon's artist's brushes. Mounted in a green silk portfolio with label 'Audubon relics.' [Laid-in:] The Monthly American Journal of Geology. Vol. I, no. 12. Philadelphia, 1831. Containing Audubon's letter to G.W. Featherstonhaugh concerning his visit to Charleston. Provenance: Mrs. Grace Phillips Johnson (1877-1972, her sale Christie's New York, 26 May 1977, lot 104).
The present group of paintbrushes constitutes what may be the only such relic from Audubon in private hands.
The present group of paintbrushes constitutes what may be the only such relic from Audubon in private hands.