Tropic Bird (Plate CCLXII)

Name: AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Brand: Tropic Bird (Plate CCLXII)
Price: 4200.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 5,292

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AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Tropic Bird (Plate CCLXII)

Price Realised USD 5,292

AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), BY ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)
Tropic Bird (Plate CCLXII)
Phaeton aetherus
engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1835, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1835, with margins, framed
20³⁄₄ x 30¹⁄₄ in. (52.5 x 77 cm.) plate on 25³⁄₄ x 38⁵⁄₈ in. (65.5 x 98 cm.) sheet

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Lot Essay

The current name of these birds is the White-tailed Tropicbird (or Yellow-Billed Tropicbird). Audubon painted this subject, "sometime after 1833, after he received specimens from his friend, Robert Day, who had taken Audubon on his boat to Florida in the spring of 1832" (Low, p.144).