Audubon Aquatint, Ruff-necked Hummingbird
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Ruff-necked Hummingbird, Plate 379.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
35 5/8" x 25" sheet.
Comparables: Christie's, 2004 - $10,158; Christie's, 1982 - $6,600.
"Towards the close of May, the females were sitting, at which time the males were uncommonly quarrelsome and vigilant, darting out at me as I approached the tree probably near the nest, looking like an angry coal of brilliant fire, passing within very little distance of my face, returning several times to the attack, sinking and darting with the utmost velocity, at the same time uttering a curious reverberating sharp bleat, somewhat similar to the quivering twang of a dead twig, yet also so much like the real bleat of some small quadruped, that for some time I searched the ground instead of the air, for the actor in the scene." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
Ruff-necked Hummingbird, Plate 379.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
35 5/8" x 25" sheet.
Comparables: Christie's, 2004 - $10,158; Christie's, 1982 - $6,600.
"Towards the close of May, the females were sitting, at which time the males were uncommonly quarrelsome and vigilant, darting out at me as I approached the tree probably near the nest, looking like an angry coal of brilliant fire, passing within very little distance of my face, returning several times to the attack, sinking and darting with the utmost velocity, at the same time uttering a curious reverberating sharp bleat, somewhat similar to the quivering twang of a dead twig, yet also so much like the real bleat of some small quadruped, that for some time I searched the ground instead of the air, for the actor in the scene." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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Audubon Aquatint, Ruff-necked Hummingbird
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