Lot 355
After John James Audubon (American 1785-1851), 'Sandwich Tern, Florida Cray Fish', no. 56, plate CCLXXIX, from Birds of America, hand-colored engraving by R. Havell, double-elephant paper watermarked 'J. Whatman, 1836', framed, image size 10.125in. x 18. 125in, sheet size 25 in. x 37.25in. Note: Based on a composition painted May 26, 1832 in the Florida Keys. Audubon described how he 'observed a large flock of Terns....on examining the first individual picked up from the water, I perceived from the yellow point of its bill that it was different from any that I had previously seen, and accordingly shouted 'A prize! A Prize!' a new bird to the American Fauna! And so it was good Reader, for no person before had found the Sandwich Tern on any part of our coast'.
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