
Lot 48
Joseph Bartholemew Kidd(1806-1889)Baltimore Oriole (after John James Audubon) 26 x 20 1/2in
18 May 2016, 14:00 EDT
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Joseph Bartholemew Kidd (1806-1889)
Baltimore Oriole (after John James Audubon)
oil on canvas
26 x 20 1/2in
oil on canvas
26 x 20 1/2in
Footnotes
Provenance
Mrs. John James (Lucy Blackwell) Audubon.
The Shaffer Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio, by 1964.
W. Graham Arader III, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Private collection, San Francisco, California, acquired from the above.
Literature
A. Ford, John James Audubon, Norman, Oklahoma, 1964, p. 441.
Joseph Bartholemew Kidd rendered the present work based on the John James Audubon illustration of the Baltimore Oriole for Birds of America, in 1825. Audubon's rendering was based on birds he studied in Louisiana.