John James Audubon (After)

Handcolored etching with engraving and aquatint, 1835, by R. Havell, on wove paper with the J. Whatman 1835 watermark, framed

The print is in good condition with wide margins and stitch holes at the disbound edge. The blue color has possibly been enhanced. There are occasional, mostly pale, fox marks in the sheet, the most obvious being a dark but tiny fox mark above the white bird's beak. There is pale mat stain in the margins adn the sheet edges have discolored over time.
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