AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BY ROBERT HAVELL

AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
BY ROBERT HAVELL
Virginian Partridge (Plate 76)
Northern Bobwhite, Perdix Virginiana
hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, 1829, on J Whatman Turkey Mill, Low's Variant I, with upper and lower margins (trimmed), minor surface soiling, the palest mat staining, a few foxmarks, a minute pressure mark at center, a 1 3/16-in. backed tear at the center of the lower margin edge, a 1-in. backed tear at the extreme upper right and lower left corners, three ¼-in. tears at the upper margin edge (one backed), a ¼-in. tear at the left margin edge, old hinge remains at the reverse of the upper margin edge, otherwise in good condition
P. 24½ x 37 7/8 in. (622 x 962 mm.)
S. 26 x 37 7/8 in. (660 x 962 mm.)