AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (American, 1785-1851). CAYENNE TERN, Plate CCLXXIII, hand-colored etching and aquatint by R. Havell, London, 1835. - Framed, plate: 14 3/4 in. x 20 1/2 in. Estimate $2,500-3,000
A Certificate of Provenance signed by the former Mayor of New York, Edward Koch, accompanies the lot.
PROVENANCE: Purchased by the City of New York in 1850 from the family of John James Audubon. Sotheby's, NY, October 18-19, 1985, sale of "The Birds of America", property of the City of New York, Department of Records and Information Services.
Good condition, watermark "J. Whatman, 1836." Sheet size: 25 1/2 in. x 38 in. Full sheet, not trimmed, the margins slightly darkened in areas beneath mat showing binding marks along top edge, gilt edge along 3 sides, some smudges in margin at upper left and upper right, minor creasing and soiling along bottom edge.
