Red Tailed Hawk (Plate 51) Buteo jamaicensis Variant 1

AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BY ROBERT HAVELL Red Tailed Hawk (Plate 51) Buteo jamaicensis Variant 1 engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, 1829, on J Whatman Turkey Mill, trimmed within the platemark on three sides, minor surface soiling, a few pale foxmarks, a few minor scratches at the lower left of the subject, pale mat staining, two repaired tears at the at the upper left edge, five repaired tears along the lower margin edge, occasional handling creases and rippling along the extreme edges, otherwise in good condition, framed S. 38 x 25 1/8 in. (965 x 638 mm.)