Three phalaropes numbered 1, 2 and 3
Red Phalarope Audubon Bird Print - Plate 255
PLATE CCLV is lettered at top right and No 51 at top left. Beneath the birds the script title Red Phalarope stands over PHALAROPUS PLATYRHYNCHUS, Temm., and an italic line reads Adult Male 1, Adult Female 2, Winter Plumage 3.
The rust-red bird marked 1 stands on a brown rock at right with its wings raised, showing a black crown, a white face patch and a yellow bill. The bird marked 2 flies across the upper left, brown-streaked, with dark and white-barred wings and a rufous tail. The bird marked 3, blue-grey and white with a brown and white head, crouches on the grassy ground at centre left with its wings lifted and its bill pointed up.
Grey water stretches behind them to a distant grey headland at right, and the shore below is grey-green and brown, with tufts of grass and stones under the rock. At bottom left a line reads Drawn from Nature, by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S. F.L.S., and at bottom right Engraved, Printed, & Coloured, by R. Havell, London, 1835.
Paper & Craft
Printed on 325gsm archival matte paper with archival inks, in 12 x 9, 16 x 12 and 32 x 24 inches. The matte surface keeps the fine feather lines and the engraved lettering clear without glare.