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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Fulmar Petrel (Plate CCLXIV)
Procellaria glacialis
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1835, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1835, with margins, framed
1218 x 1912 in. (30.8 x 49.5 cm.) plate on 2534 x 3812 (65.5 x 95.5 cm.) sheet
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Depicts a solitary male on a rock in the sea, with summer plumage. Audubon sketched this bird "off the coast of Newfoundland during a journey from England to America in August, 1831, but did not make the painting [that this engraving is based upon] until later" (Low, p.145).

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