Antique Bird Print of Xantus's Murrlets Made after D.G. Elliot, 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Bird Print of Xantus's Murrlets Made after D.G. Elliot, 1869

Name: Antique Bird Print of Xantus's Murrlets Made after D.G. Elliot, 1869
Brand: Emanuel Bowen
SKU: BGI-00178
Price: 860 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: Emanuel Bowen
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 62.5 × 70 cm (24.6 × 27.6 in)
Condition: Good. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00178

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

Xantus's murrelets, a color lithograph lettered "Brachyramphus hypoleucus", 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.

The plate shows three birds in a coastal setting. One stands upright on a grassy ledge at the right in the foreground, with a black back, a white breast and a thin pointed bill, while a second flies low over the water to the left. A third is perched on the cliff behind, and small birds float on the surface and wheel above the sea in the background. The water is a pale green and the rock is a soft gray-green.

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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