Yellow-winged Sparrow

by John James Audubon, Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Painter

$40,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Provenance: Collection of Lucy Audubon Williams. An original ornithological oil painting from the Audubon/Kidd collaboration. One of the rare Kidd paintings stemming from his collaboration with Audubon. 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

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