Books and Manuscripts

London: R(obert). Havell, 1833 (but, 1836). Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J. Whatman watermarked paper, dated 1836. Engraved, printed, and colored by Robert Havell, after Audubon. Unevenly trimmed, within plate-mark, with "I" in "Plate CLXXVI" excised; mat burn; unevenly toned; scattered spotting in margins. 25 1/4 x 37 1/8 in. (641 x 943 mm). In mat and in frame, 35 3/4 x 47 1/8 in. (908 x 1197 mm). Low, p. 113, Variant 2

Plate CLXXVI from Audubon's The Birds of America (London, 1827-38). "Painting and plate depict two males, right and second from left, and two females, left and second from right, all amid vegetation that includes Twisted stalk and Trillium. Audubon made this painting near Dennisville, Maine, in August, 1832." (Susanne M. Low, A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America, p. 113).