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Audubon Aquatint, Carolina Parrot
Audubon Aquatint, Carolina Parrot
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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Carolina Parrot, Plate 26.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38" x 24 7/8" sheet, 49" x 37" framed.

Comparables: Sotheby’s, 2019 - $150,000; Swann, 2021 - $137,000; Arader Galleries, 2017 - $170,800; Arader Galleries, 2020 - $158,600.



A Genius Composition and The Most Desirable of Audubon's Extinct Birds.

Featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Anthology on American Still-Lifes.

In his Ornithological Biography, Audubon states, "Our Parakeets are very rapidly diminishing in number; and in some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen.... ." Unfortunately, the vibrant birds were considered a pest by farmers and were killed in large numbers to prevent them from ruining crops. This slaughter, combined with deforestation throughout their range and the popularity of their feathers in the millinery trade, led to the decline of the Parrot. The species was rarely seen outside of Florida after 1860, and by the 1920s it was considered extinct. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).
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Audubon Aquatint, Carolina Parrot

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