John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) , "Eared Grebe", Plate CCCCIV, hand-colored aquatint with engraving, from The Birds of America, Havell edition, "J.Whatman 1837" watermark visible, sheet 25 1/2 in. x 38 in., framed . Provenance: Eliza Jane Nicholson (1843-1896), the first woman publisher of a daily metropolitan newspaper (the New Orleans Picayune); descended in the family

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