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THBafter John James Audubon (1785-1851)
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Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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LiveFeb 12, 2015 - Feb 13, 2015
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Great Esquimaux Curlew, 1833
hand-colored engraving, sheet size 25 7/8 by 33 in.
by Robert Havell"Great Esquimaux Curlew (No. 48, Plate CCXXXVII)"
"Numenius Hudsonius"
"Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon F.R.S.F.L.S." lower left
"Engrav'd, Printed, & Coloured by R. Havell, London 1833" lower right
on J. Whatman watermarked paper
In Newfoundland, Audubon writes, “None of my party observed an individual of the species [Numenius longirostris, Long-billed Curlew] in the course of our three months’ stay in the country, although we saw great numbers of the true Esquimaux Curlew, N. borealis...I have never seen them searching for berries on elevated lands, as the Esquimaux Curlews are wont to do.”
Provenance: Collection of an independent Audubon Society
Literature: Christoph Irmscher, ed., “John James Audubon: Writings & Drawings,” New York, NY, 1999, pp. 440-441, 444. John James Audubon, "Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories," London, England, 1826-1838.
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