Antique Hand-Colored Print of North American White-Headed Woodpecker Birds, 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Hand-Colored Print of North American White-Headed Woodpecker Birds, 1869

Name: Antique Hand-Colored Print of North American White-Headed Woodpecker Birds, 1869
Brand: John James Audubon
SKU: BGI-00188
Price: 665 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: John James Audubon
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 60.5 × 48 cm (23.8 × 18.9 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00188

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

White-headed woodpecker (Xenopicus albolarvatus), an original large folio lithograph with hand coloring from Daniel Giraud Elliot's The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, published in New York for the author between 1866 and 1869. The plate is lettered "Xenopicus albolarvatus" and carries the notes "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot, F.Z.S." and "Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila." beneath the image.

Two woodpeckers with white heads and black bodies are shown at life size on a weathered, broken stump. One clings to the side of the trunk facing down and to the right, and the other perches higher at the right facing left, with the white wing patch visible on the folded wing. Pale green lichen drapes the dead wood, and at the foot of the plate a small landscape shows a lake and a church spire in the distance.

Elliot described the species of the American West that had not been figured by Wilson or Audubon, among them birds of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, many from specimens collected on government expeditions. The white-headed woodpecker lives in the pine forests of the western mountains.

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