JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
LOT DETAILS
An original hand-coloured chromolithograph titled "White Headed Pigeon", Plate 280, No. 8-4, sight 76.8 x 61cm (30 3/4 x 24in); dated 1860 in the plate; professionally framed with non-glare glass and matted by Josephine McDonough, Atlanta, Georgia, frame outside dimensions 1.19m x 1.01m (46 3/4 x 39 3/4in); Provenance: Bache Whitlock collection, Palm Beach, Florida; the collection of William Beverly Wuscuns, M.D. (1965 handwritten note verso); acquired by the present private Chatham-Kent collection; Audubon House in Key West Florida was also in contact with the current owners, and estimated the value of this print at $4000 - $9500 USD; John James Audubon, French/American, 1785-1851; a self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist who made a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America; Audubon's major work titled "The Birds of America" from 1827-1839 is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed