Audubon Havell Aquatint, Wood Ibis, Plate 216 - One of Audubon's Genius Icons

AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Wood Ibis, Plate 216. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. 37 7/8” x 25 7/8” sheet, 49 1/2” x 37” framed. Comparables: Arader Galleries, 2024 - $282,900 (Sachsen-Meinigen), Arader Galleries, 2022 - $192,000. One of Audubon's Genius Icons. "As soon as they have discovered a place abounding in fish, they dance as it were all through it, until the water becomes thick with mud stirred from the bottom by their feet." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).

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