Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Plate LXVI) Picus principalis Variant 2

AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BY ROBERT HAVELL Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Plate LXVI) Picus principalis Variant 2 engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1829, on J Whatman watermark 1834, with narrow margins, pale light- and mat staining, surface soiling and creasing throughout, occasional foxing, several touched-in splits and tears in the image and at the sheet edges, occasional short tears and paper loss at the sheet edges, framed P. 38¼ x 26 in. (972 x 660 mm.) S. 39 7/8 x 26 5/8 in. (1013 x 676 mm.)