Republican Cliff Swallow

by John James Audubon, Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Painter

$65,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An important original ornithological oil painting from the Audubon/Kidd collaboration. In 1827, while in Edinburgh supervising the engraving of the first part of his double-elephant folio The Birds of America, Audubon met a young landscape artist named Kidd, whom Audubon's engraver Lizars had employed to finish the sky in the background behind one of Audubon's birds. Audubon would write in his journal on March 1, 1827, of Kidd: I admired him for his talents at so early a

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