DUSKY PETREL (PLATE CCXCIX)

Audubon's Shearwater, "Puffinus lherminieri" JW 36 very good impression, a small scrape in the left margin, lacking lower left margin tip, slight ripples, slight soiling in the margins 12 1/4 by 19 1/2 in.; 310 by 497 mm. Based on the composition painted c. 1835.