The Buffle-Headed Duck from Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States

by Alexander Pope, Jr.

$9,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A handsome watercolor of two buffle-headed ducks framed with a chromolithograph of the same, executed by the paragon of American sporting art Alexander Pope Jr. for his 1878 print portfolio Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States. Alexander Pope Jr. is the quintessential American sporting artist of animal and still-life paintings. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1849, with deep roots in the Boston area that could be traced back to the Mayflower, Pope

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