1811 Ornithology Land Birds Plate VI - Antique Piciformes Print

1811 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

1811 Ornithology Land Birds Plate VI - Antique Piciformes Print

Name: 1811 Ornithology Land Birds Plate VI - Antique Piciformes Print
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13535-104
Price: 325 USD
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Date: 1811
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 27.5 × 21 cm (10.8 × 8.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good. Some tape along edge on reverse for stability. Browning mainly around the edges. Left side cropped. Vibrant colors, suggesting the print has been well-preserved. Study the image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13535-104

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.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A plate of land birds from the Cyclopaedia of Abraham Rees, headed "Ornithology. Div'n 1st, Land Birds, Order 2nd, Picae, Plate VI", published on 1 January 1811 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, as the Act directed. The plate is an original copper engraving with hand color, engraved by Milton after drawings by Sydenham Teast Edwards.

Seven birds perch on and around a gnarled tree: a green trogon with a long barred tail at the upper left, a brown bird at the upper right, a large black and white woodpecker with a red crest in the center, a green woodpecker-like bird at the left, and a mottled bird clinging head down to a branch at lower right. A key at the foot is arranged by genus, Trogon, Bucco, Yunx, Picus and Sitta, giving the Latin binomial and the English name for each. The large crested woodpecker is the pileated woodpecker of North America, and the key includes a "Carolina" woodpecker.

Rees's Cyclopaedia was issued in parts between 1802 and 1820, with plates in separate volumes. The plate is a general ornithological sheet, with a single North American bird among species from several continents.

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