Canvas-backed Duck Oppenheimer Print

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Description
Plate: 301 Canvas-backed DuckAudubon painted the Male on the left in 1834 while in Baltimore, Maryland. The other two ducks were painted earlier in 1821 in Louisiana. They were later collaged to the first painting. The undefined harbor scene in the background later became Baltimore Harbor in the Havell engraving.

23 7/8 x 28 inches

The Oppenheimer-New York Historical Society Edition recreates the preparatory watercolor models John James Audubon (1785-1851) made prior to the publication of the double elephant folio edition of The Birds of America (1827-38) engraved by Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878).

The New-York Historical Society and Oppenheimer Editions have an exclusive agreement to publish numbered actual-size facsimiles of all 474 of John James Audubon’s avian watercolors in the museum’s collection. The edition is limited to 200 prints of each image. With watercolor inks on watercolor paper, these prints directly capture the artist's hand and fundamental vision, unlike any publication before.
Item Number: 5336