Tell-tale Godwit or Snipe
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engraving and aquatint in black on wove paper (restrike)
Dimensions
plate: 37.78 × 54.29 cm (14 7/8 × 21 3/8 in.) sheet: 71.12 × 98.11 cm (28 × 38 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bill and Peg Steiner
Accession Number
2016.12.1
About the Artist
Robert Havell after John James Audubon
Robert Havell Jr., born on November 25, 1793, in Reading, Berkshire, England, was the son of renowned engraver and publisher Robert Havell Sr. and Lydia Miller Phillips. Growing up in a family of artists that included notable engravers and etchers, he trained under his father, mastering aquatint techniques early on. Though briefly estranged from the family business, Havell reconciled with his fath...