Echoes of the Amazon: The Gold-Breasted Melody, circa 1820

Name: Echoes of the Amazon: The Gold-Breasted Melody, circa 1820
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13674-31
Price: 300 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1820
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26 × 20.5 cm (10.2 × 8.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good, given age. General age related toning and soiling but mostly around the edges and mostly outside the image. Old hand-coloring. Two edges cut rough. Please study the images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-13674-31

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

Gray-winged trumpeter, a hand-colored lithograph by Carl Wilhelm Hahn from his Vögel aus Asien, Africa, America & Neuholland in Abbildungen nach der Natur, published by Lechner in Nuremberg and dated about 1820. The plate is listed in Nissen's bibliography of zoological books as Nissen 403.

The lettering reads "IIte Lieferung 6te Tafel" at the upper right, "Psophia crepitans. Linn." and "Goldbrüstiger Trompetenvogel." at the foot, and "nach der Natur gezeichnet von C.W. Hahn" in the lower right corner. The bird stands in profile on a patch of green grass: a dark, long-necked body with a glossy blue-violet patch at the breast, gray folded wings, a short yellow-green bill and long yellow-green legs. Above it, in plain gray pencil-like shading, is a separate study of the bird's head.

Psophia crepitans is a ground-dwelling bird of the forests of northern South America, and its German name here, the gold-breasted trumpeter, refers to the sheen on the breast. Hahn's series was issued in numbered parts (Lieferungen), each with its own plates.

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