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Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869

Birds · 19th century

Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 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 × 60.5 cm (18.9 × 23.8 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BGI-00186
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

Age-related toning. Toning around image. Few tiny tears. Please review the images for further condition details.

About this sheet

Cassin's Snow Goose, plate "Anser Albatus," an original hand-colored 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. The large folio sheet is dated 1869 and carries the lettering "Drawn from Nature by D. G. Elliot, F.Z.S." at the lower left, and "Bowen & Co. lith. & col'd, Philada." at the lower right.

Two white geese are shown at the edge of a shallow, pebbly shoreline. A large goose stands in profile in the foreground on rounded stones, with its orange bill, orange legs and black-tipped wing feathers sharply drawn, while a second bird swims in the gray water behind it. The plumage is rendered in fine stipple and soft washes of cream and gray, and the species name is printed in capitals beneath the image.

Elliot's work was planned as a continuation of the great American bird folios of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, and concentrated on species they had not figured. It had a particular focus on the birds of the American West, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, and some from Alaska and the Arctic, many drawn from specimens brought back by government expeditions.

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Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869
Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869
1869 · Ref. BGI-00186 · € 1 850
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