Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869

Name: Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869
Brand: John James Audubon
SKU: BGI-00186
Price: 2070 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: John James Audubon
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 48 × 60.5 cm (18.9 × 23.8 in)
Condition: Good. Age-related toning. Toning around image. Few tiny tears, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00186

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

Cassin's Snow Goose, plate "Anser Albatus," an original hand-colored lithograph 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 large folio sheet is dated 1869 and carries the lettering "Drawn from Nature by D. G. Elliot, F.Z.S." at the lower left, and "Bowen & Co. lith. & col'd, Philada." at the lower right.

Two white geese are shown at the edge of a shallow, pebbly shoreline. A large goose stands in profile in the foreground on rounded stones, with its orange bill, orange legs and black-tipped wing feathers sharply drawn, while a second bird swims in the gray water behind it. The plumage is rendered in fine stipple and soft washes of cream and gray, and the species name is printed in capitals beneath the image.

Elliot's work was planned as a continuation of the great American bird folios of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, and concentrated on species they had not figured. It had a particular focus on the birds of the American West, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, and some from Alaska and the Arctic, many drawn from specimens brought back by government expeditions.

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