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Trumpeter Swan (Plate CCCLXXVI) Cygnus buccinator
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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851)
BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793 - 1878)
Trumpeter Swan (Plate CCCLXXVI)
Cygnus buccinator
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring on J. Whatman paper dated 1838
Image: 25 1/8 x 27 ¼ in. (638 x 692 mm.)
Sheet: 25 ½ x 37 7/8 in. (648 x 962 mm.)
Executed in 1837.
BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793 - 1878)
Trumpeter Swan (Plate CCCLXXVI)
Cygnus buccinator
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring on J. Whatman paper dated 1838
Image: 25 1/8 x 27 ¼ in. (638 x 692 mm.)
Sheet: 25 ½ x 37 7/8 in. (648 x 962 mm.)
Executed in 1837.
Literature
M. Potter et. al, The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1988. vol. II, pp. 196, no. 104
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