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Robert Havell, ?Cock of the Plains?, wildlife, #1779479

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Robert Havell, ?Cock of the Plains?, wildlife, #1779479
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Wildlife art print entitled ?Cock of the Plains?, by Robert Havell

Born in Reading, England, Robert Havell earned a distinguished reputation for his aquatint engravings of John James Audubon's "Birds of America,? that is to say all of them but the first 10 plates. He first visited Audubon in 1839 in New York City and traveled and sketched the countryside in a homemade horse-drawn trailer. His travel-weary wife eventually established a home for the family in Ossining, located on the Hudson River. Havell later moved to Tarrytown, living there from 1857 to his death in 1878. He traveled frequently, sketching and taking notes of everything so he could later do studio paintings in oil, watercolor, and even some engravings, the later which was his favorite medium.
Havell truly captures the true nature of the birds in ?Cock of the Plains: Tetrao Urphasianus?, and pays great detail to every nuance that can be captured and translated over into an amazing work of art. His use of color, combined with the extraordinary rendering of the birds, is admirably natural and extremely realistic, right down to the finite details of the feathers. It has been double matted with a bottom mat of moss green and a top textured mat of beige, both of which mirror the tones found in the piece. The top mat has been professionally cut with geometric shapes that resemble rectangles and arrows, which only enhances this work of art even further as the bottom mat shows through to draw your eye inward. This very ...
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<tr><td>Condition:very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:0</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:25.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:19.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Robert Havell, ?Cock of the Plains?, wildlife,</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230, USA</td></tr>
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