AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Green Heron, Plate 333.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
24 7/8" x 36 7/8" sheet, 32 1/2" x 45 1/4" framed.

Comparables: Sotheby's, 2009 - $74,500; Guernsey's, 2013 - $61,000.

The Favorite Heron for Many Collectors.

"This species is more generally known than any of our Herons, it being very extensively dispersed in spring, summer, and early autumn. It ranges along our many rivers to great distances from the sea, being common on the Missouri and its branches, from which it spreads to all such localities as are favourable to its habits. To the north of the United States, however, it is very seldom seen, it being of rare occurrence even in Nova Scotia. At the approach of winter it retires to the Floridas and Lower Louisiana, where individuals, however, reside all the year, and many remove southward beyond the limits of our country." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).