Sale 1882
New York
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3 October 2007
Price realised
USD 1,000
Estimate
AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BY ROBERT HAVELL Green-blue, or White Bellied Swallow (Plate 100) Hirundo bicolor engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1830, on J Whatman dated 1830, with margins, surface soiling, occasional foxmarks, mat staining on the reverse showing through to front, occasional nicks and tears at the sheet edges, foxing on the reverse, otherwise in good condition P. 19¼ x 12 1/8 in. (489 x 308 mm.) S. 37 3/8 x 25 in. (949 x 635 mm.)
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