AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851), Canvas backed Duck, (Plate 301), 1827–1838 The viviparous quadrupeds of North America he uses a barrel whose

he uses a barrel whose inner surface is covered with a sheet metal lining in the shape of a grater

Rendered with the precision and clarity characteristic of natural history illustration in the decades following Thomas Bewick and preceding the great Victorian entomological publications

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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851), Canvas backed Duck, (Plate 301), 1827–1838 The viviparous quadrupeds of North America he uses a barrel whoseJOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785 1851) Canvas backed Duck, Plate 301 [With View of Baltimore, Maryland in the background] From the Birds of America Aquatint engraving with original hand color London: Robert Havell, 18271838 Paper size: 26 1 8 x 38 7 8 in. This enhancement of its value I look upon as leaving arisen from the preference given to it by the epicures of our Middle Districts, who have strangely lauded it as superior to every other Duck in the world.