ARCTIC TERN (PLATE CCL)

Sterna paradisaea JW 36 very good impression, faint offprint showing through on the recto 19 1/2 by 12 3/8 in.; 497 by 314 mm. Based on a composition painted on or shortly before June 25, 1833, near the Magdalen Islands, Nova Scotia, or off the coast of Labrador.