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Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869

Birds · 19th century

Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869

€ 1 850

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date
1869
Sheet size
48.5 × 59 cm (19.1 × 23.2 in)
Reference
BGI-00196
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Condition

Very good, general age-related toning. Please review the images for further condition details.

About this sheet

Temminck's auk, adult and young (Brachyramphus Temminckii), an original large folio lithograph from Daniel Giraud Elliot's The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, published in New York for the author between 1866 and 1869, with hand coloring. The plate is lettered "Brachyramphus Temminckii, adult and young", with "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot, F.Z.S." at the lower left and the imprint "Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila." at the lower right.

Two seabirds stand on a rocky headland above a calm sea. The adult at the right, upright with a pale crest swept back from the head, has a white breast and gray-brown back, while the smaller young bird at the left is paler about the face. A band of warm sunrise color lies along the horizon, and small groups of birds are scattered on the rocks and in the air in the distance.

Elliot intended the work to supply life-size figures of species discovered since the time of Wilson and Audubon, with an emphasis on birds of the American West and the northern Pacific coast. The lithographs were printed in Philadelphia by Bowen and colored by hand.

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Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869
Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869
1869 · Ref. BGI-00196 · € 1 850
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