Antique Bird Print of Gilded Flickers Made After D.G. Elliot, 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Bird Print of Gilded Flickers Made After D.G. Elliot, 1869

Name: Antique Bird Print of Gilded Flickers Made After D.G. Elliot, 1869
Brand: Emanuel Bowen
SKU: BGI-00174
Price: 805 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: Emanuel Bowen
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 70 × 62.5 cm (27.6 × 24.6 in)
Condition: Good. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00174

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

Gilded flickers, a color lithograph lettered "Colaptes chrysoides", from Daniel Giraud Elliot's "The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America", published between 1866 and 1869. The sheet is lettered as drawn from nature by Elliot and printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia.

Two woodpeckers cling to a broken tree trunk. The one on the right climbs the bark with its black-spotted white underparts and barred brown back in view, while the other looks out from behind the trunk at the left. Moss grows on the bark, a leafy sprig rises at lower left and a few evergreens appear in the distance. The sheet is a tall format of about 70 by 62.5 cm.

The work appeared between 1866 and 1869 and set out to figure North American species not previously illustrated. Only 200 copies were printed, and the lithography was by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia.

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