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Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle. Falco Washingtoniensis [current name: Bald Eagle. Haliaeetus leucocephalus], printing plate for "The Birds of America," 1827–38, plate XI

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Printing plate: engraving etching and aquatint on copper nickel plated and filled with brass paint; second variant of engraved text, Birds of America plate XI
Birds of America plate XI, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of William E. Dodge Jr. 1876
Title: Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle. Falco Washingtoniensis [current name: Bald Eagle. Haliaeetus leucocephalus], printing plate for "The Birds of America," 1827–38, plate XI
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Printing plate: engraving etching and aquatint on copper nickel plated and filled with brass paint; second variant of engraved text, Birds of America plate XI.

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