Antique Bird Print of the Red-Shinned Hawk, Redstart and a Warbler 'c.1820'

1820 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Bird Print of the Red-Shinned Hawk, Redstart and a Warbler 'c.1820'

Name: Antique Bird Print of the Red-Shinned Hawk, Redstart and a Warbler 'c.1820'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13009-25
Price: 560 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1820
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 34 × 25.5 cm (13.4 × 10 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Shows some wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13009-25

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 sharp-shinned hawk, a redstart and a yellow-rumped warbler, an original engraving with hand coloring from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology, circa 1820. The sheet is lettered at the foot "1. Sharp-shinnd Hawk, 2. Redstart, 3. Yellow-rump" and signed at the lower left "Drawn from Nature by A. Wilson".

The hawk takes up most of the left side of the sheet, standing upright on the top of a fence post with one talon raised, its barred tail hanging down and its eye turned to the viewer. The two small birds perch at the upper right: a redstart with its orange wing and tail patches, and a yellow-rumped warbler on a bare twig. A small lizard crawls across the grass at the bottom. The coloring is light and delicate, in olive, buff, orange and gray.

Wilson's American Ornithology, published from 1808 to 1814, was the first major illustrated book on the birds of the United States.

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