Melodic Hues: The Blue-Grey Tanager of the Tropics, circa 1820

1820 · Views & Engravings

Melodic Hues: The Blue-Grey Tanager of the Tropics, circa 1820

Name: Melodic Hues: The Blue-Grey Tanager of the Tropics, circa 1820
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13674-35
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1820
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 24.5 × 19 cm (9.6 × 7.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good, given age. General age related toning and soiling. Old hand-coloring. Please study the images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13674-35

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

A small perching bird in bright colors, a hand-colored lithograph by Carl Wilhelm Hahn from Vögel aus Asien, Africa, America & Neuholland in Abbildungen nach der Natur, dated about 1820. The plate is lettered "Iste Lieferung 3te Tafel" at the upper right, "Tanagra Tatao. Linn. Mas." and "Die Paradies-Merle. Mann." below the bird, and "nach der Natur gezeichnet von C.W. Hahn" at the lower right.

The male bird perches in profile on a short cut branch against an open cream ground inside a ruled border. It has a yellow-green head, a black back and a white throat patch, with blue wing feathers and a band of red-orange and yellow across the rump before the black tail. The coloring is laid in flat washes over the lithographic outline.

Tanagers of this kind are birds of tropical America, and the plate belongs to the first part of Hahn's illustrated series of birds from four continents, which names its birds in both Latin and German on every sheet.

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