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N. Y., remaining there until his death November 11, 1878, in his 

 eighty-fifth year, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with 

 his wife, who died July 10, 1878. Their first boy was named 

 Audubon, and the naturahst stood god-father, holding the child 

 while being baptised, in St. James church, London. This boy died 

 two years later. 



After coming to America, Havell devoted much time to painting 

 in oils and a short time before his death gave an exhibition and sale 

 at his home, of some seventy-five paintings representing landscapes, 

 panorama views and ornithological subjects. The titles of some 

 of these were 'Sun Set on the Hudson,' 'Life and Death of the 

 Pines' (a forest scene in Canada; the old pines dead and the young 

 pines springing up amid their graves), 'Indians gathering Wild 

 Rice,' panorama views of 'East River' and 'Niagara,' 'Hawk 

 attacking Mallard Ducks,' 'Death of the Warrior' (White-headed 

 Eagle dying, and Canvasback Ducks trying to protect their young), 

 'Carolina Doves courting.' Not long since some of Havell's 

 paintings were still in possession of his grandson, who also has the 

 silver loving-cup which Audubon presented to his friend and en- 

 graver on the completion of the second volume. On this cup is 

 engraved, "To Robert Havell, from his friend J. J. A. 1834." 



Havell's skill and patience during the eleven years which the 

 publishing of this magnificent work occupied, won for him the 

 reputation he so justly deserved. Prof. John Wilson ^ (Christopher 

 North) in his review of the work in Blackwood's 'Edinburgh 

 INIagazine,' Vol. XXX, 1831, says: "jNIr. Havell is an engraver of 

 great merit, and his skill has found noble employment in perpetu- 

 ating the creations, for they are all full of imaginations, of the 

 'American Woodsman.' We have heard some of our best engravers 

 speak in the highest terms of the execution of the plates that have 

 appeared since the work came into the hands of Mr. Havell. Audu- 

 bon first employed Mr. Lizars of Edinburgh; but that admirable 

 artist himself recommended his friend to get the work executed in 

 London that it might have the advantage of his own personal super- 

 intendence during the first years of its progress." 



As it required over seventy-six thousand plates for the one hun- 



1 Prof. John Wilson, born Paisley, May 18, 1785; died Edinburgh, April 3, 1854. 

 Frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine for many years from 1817. 



