Audubon Aquatint, American White Pelican
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American White Pelican, Plate 311. John James Audubon (1785 - 1851). First Edition Robert Havell Aquatint Engraving with Original Hand Color From Birds of America Double Elephant Folio. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches sheet, 49 x 37 inches framed. Guidence: Bonhams, 2015 - $173,000. “I feel great pleasure, good reader, in assuring you, that our White Pelican, which has hitherto been considered the same as that found in Europe, is quite different. In consequence of this discovery, I have honoured it with the name of my beloved country, over the mighty streams of which, may this splendid bird wander free and unmolested to the most distant times, as it has already done from the misty ages of unknown antiquity.”
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Audubon Aquatint, American White Pelican
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