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Antique Bird Print of the Canada Bunting by Audubon, c.1840
1840 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Bird Print of the Canada Bunting by Audubon, c.1840

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€350 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

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Date
1840
Maker
John James Audubon
Kind
Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size
26 × 15 cm (10.2 × 5.9 in)
Condition
Fair
Period
Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places
Canada
Reference
BG-11326
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

Canada Bunting (Tree Sparrow), a hand-colored lithograph from the first royal octavo edition of The Birds of America, drawn by John James Audubon and printed and colored by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. The plate is numbered 34 and lettered Pl. 166 at the top, with the common names, "1 Male 2 Female", and a second legend, "Canadian Barberry", beneath the picture.

Two birds are shown perched in a branch of the shrub, the male above with wings and tail spread and the female below, both in the streaked rusty-brown plumage of the species, with olive-green leaves and small berries on the twigs. The plate carries Audubon's drawing credit and Bowen's imprint in the lower margin.

Audubon began planning a smaller edition of the work even as the last plates of the great double elephant folio were being finished. The royal octavo edition, issued in New York and Philadelphia from 1840 to 1844, was a success and was followed by seven further editions.

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