Audubon Aquatint, Golden Eye Duck
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Golden Eye Duck, Plate 342.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
26 5/8" x 38 3/4" sheet, 36 3/4" x 49 1/4" framed.
Comparables: Guernsey's, 2014 - $31,250; Christie's, 2004 - $26,290.
"This species exhibits a degree of cunning which surpasses that of many other Ducks, and yet at times it appears quite careless. When I have been walking, without any object in view, along the banks of the Ohio, between Shippingport and Louisville, I have often seen the Golden-eyes, fishing almost beneath me, when, although I had a gun, they would suffer me to approach within a hundred paces. But at other times, if I crawled or hid myself in any way while advancing towards them, with a wish to fire at them, they would, as if perfectly aware of my intentions, keep at a distance of fully two hundred yards." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831.
Golden Eye Duck, Plate 342.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
26 5/8" x 38 3/4" sheet, 36 3/4" x 49 1/4" framed.
Comparables: Guernsey's, 2014 - $31,250; Christie's, 2004 - $26,290.
"This species exhibits a degree of cunning which surpasses that of many other Ducks, and yet at times it appears quite careless. When I have been walking, without any object in view, along the banks of the Ohio, between Shippingport and Louisville, I have often seen the Golden-eyes, fishing almost beneath me, when, although I had a gun, they would suffer me to approach within a hundred paces. But at other times, if I crawled or hid myself in any way while advancing towards them, with a wish to fire at them, they would, as if perfectly aware of my intentions, keep at a distance of fully two hundred yards." - Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831.
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Audubon Aquatint, Golden Eye Duck
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