April 17, 2024
Audubon First Edition Royal Octavo 1840 - 44 Harris' Finch plate 484 handcolored
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Audubon First Edition Royal Octavo 1840 - 44 Harris' Finch plate 484 handcolored View My Other Auctions for more original Audubon prints Audubon, John James. Harris’ Finch. (New York): (J.J. Audubon), (1840-44). First royal octavo edition. Modern name Harris’ Sparrow, Zonotrichia querula. Native to central Canada and they migrate to the Great Plains during the winter. Original handcolored lithograph (plate 484) from the first royal octavo edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. (New York, 1840-44). Printed and colored by J. T. Bowen. "The first specimen seen, was procured May 4th, 1843, a short distance below the Black Snake Hills. I afterwards had the pleasure of seeing another whilst the steamer Omega was fastened to the shore, and the crew engaged in cutting wood. This was on the west side of the river, at a place lately occupied by Indians engaged in making maple sugar. The country was hilly, the timber large, and the abandoned camp of a party of Indians, proved to us that game was abundant in the neighbourhood, as we saw the remains of Deer, Wild Turkeys and Pigeons strewed around the hut, where the pots and kettles of these sons of the forest had manufactured the sugar."—John James Audubon. CONDITION A nice clean original handcolored lithograph. Archivally (and reversably) matted (acid free). Mat size 11 by
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