Engraving of The American Tit Bird with Yellow Throat in Old Handcoloring, 1749

1749 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Engraving of The American Tit Bird with Yellow Throat in Old Handcoloring, 1749

Name: Engraving of The American Tit Bird with Yellow Throat in Old Handcoloring, 1749
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13674-7
Price: 660 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1749
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 37 × 25 cm (14.6 × 9.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good to almost excellent condition with the original hand coloring still very vivid and vibrant. Russian text above the title. General age related toning.
Period: Colonial America
Reference: BG-13674-7

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

American tit with a yellow throat on a Virginia maple, an original hand-colored copper engraving from Johann Michael Seligmann's natural history series, published in Nuremberg in 1749. The plate is lettered "Tab. XXIV." at the upper right, "Die americanische Meise mit gelber Kehle." with a Russian line above it, and below the image "Parus americanus gutture luteo." and "Mésange de l'Amérique à la gorge jaune."

A small gray bird with a bright yellow throat and a black-and-white striped face clings head down to the maple branch, which hangs with clusters of pink-red winged seeds. At the lower left a bare twig bears small red flowers, and a single large lobed maple leaf in green fills the foot of the sheet. A Latin label identifies the tree as "Acer Virginianum, folio majore, subtus argenteo, supra viridi splendente. Pluk. Alma.", an old botanical name for the silver maple of eastern North America.

The credit at lower left reads "M. Catesby ad viv. delin.", so the bird and plant were drawn after Mark Catesby, whose Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands was the first illustrated survey of the birds and plants of the American South.

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