Old Bird Print of Gull Named the Black-Legged Kittiwake, 1929

1929 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Old Bird Print of Gull Named the Black-Legged Kittiwake, 1929

Name: Old Bird Print of Gull Named the Black-Legged Kittiwake, 1929
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12648-19
Price: 135 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1929
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 37 × 26.5 cm (14.6 × 10.4 in)
Condition: Good
Period: The Twentieth Century
Reference: BG-12648-19

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

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), an original color-printed bird plate from Svenska Fåglar efter Naturen och på Stenritade by Magnus von Wright, in an edition dated 1929. The artist's signature, "W:v Wright del.", appears at the lower right of the image.

The plate shows a single young bird in profile, standing on a pale shelf of rock. The gray mantle, the dark bar across the nape, the dark smudge behind the eye and the black-tipped tail mark it as a juvenile, and the printed caption beneath reads "Rissa tridactyla Lin." with the Swedish description "Tretåig mås, ung fågel" (three-toed gull, young bird). The soft, restrained coloring is set against a plain cream ground, with no landscape beyond the rock.

Magnus von Wright (1805 to 1868) was a Finnish artist and taxidermist, and with his brothers Wilhelm and Ferdinand produced some of the most admired bird illustrations of the Nordic countries. The kittiwake itself breeds around the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific, including the shores of Canada and Alaska.

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