Spotted Sandpiper 1837 Americas Wilkes was forty years old

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This brilliant chromolithograph depicts light breaking through a bank of thunderclouds above a valley

Accurately showing the course of the river

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Spotted Sandpiper 1837 Americas Wilkes was forty years oldWILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) Spotted Sandpiper 1837 Pencil and watercolor Paper size: 11 x 13 1 2 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September 1989 (a selection) Like his fellow artist naturalists in