FLORIDA CORMORANT... VIEW, FLORIDA KEYS (PLATE CCLII)

Double-crested Cormorant, "Phalacrocorax auritus" JW 36 very fine, fresh impression, a few tiny stains or fox marks in the blank area at upper right, minor soiling in the margins 19 3/4 by 26 3/8 in.; 503 by 670 mm. Based on a composition painted in the Florida Keys on April 26, 1832, Audubon's forty-seventh birthday. See lot 257.