Audubon Aquatint, Yellow Throated Warbler
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Yellow Throated Warbler, Plate 85.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 5/8" x 25 1/2" sheet.
Provenance: John Vickers Painter Collection.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2012 - $4,270; Christie's, 2004 - $2,390.
"The song of the Yellow-throated Warbler would please you, kind reader. Of this I have not a doubt, as it is soft and loud, and is continued for two or three minutes at a time, not unlike that of the Painted Finch, or Indigo Bird. As it is heard in all parts of our most dismal Cypress Swamps, it contributes to soothe the mind of a person whose occupation may lead him to such places. I never saw this species on the ground. The male and the female are nearly alike in plumage, but the young birds, which hunt for insects in company, in the manner of Creepers or Titmice, do not acquire the yellow on the throat, nor the full brilliancy of their plumage, until the first spring" (Audubon’s Ornithological Biography, 1831).
Yellow Throated Warbler, Plate 85.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 5/8" x 25 1/2" sheet.
Provenance: John Vickers Painter Collection.
Comparable: Guernsey's, 2012 - $4,270; Christie's, 2004 - $2,390.
"The song of the Yellow-throated Warbler would please you, kind reader. Of this I have not a doubt, as it is soft and loud, and is continued for two or three minutes at a time, not unlike that of the Painted Finch, or Indigo Bird. As it is heard in all parts of our most dismal Cypress Swamps, it contributes to soothe the mind of a person whose occupation may lead him to such places. I never saw this species on the ground. The male and the female are nearly alike in plumage, but the young birds, which hunt for insects in company, in the manner of Creepers or Titmice, do not acquire the yellow on the throat, nor the full brilliancy of their plumage, until the first spring" (Audubon’s Ornithological Biography, 1831).
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Audubon Aquatint, Yellow Throated Warbler
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