Original Antique Bird Print Depicting Latham's Guillemot, 1868

1868 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Original Antique Bird Print Depicting Latham's Guillemot, 1868

Name: Original Antique Bird Print Depicting Latham's Guillemot, 1868
Brand: John James Audubon
SKU: BGI-01376
Price: 2405 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1868
Maker: John James Audubon
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 51.5 × 39 cm (20.3 × 15.4 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-01376

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 bird of the North Pacific coast shown under the plate title "Sagmatorrhina Lathami" (Latham's guillemot, as the plate is cataloged), an original large folio lithograph with hand color from Daniel Giraud Elliot's The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. The work was published in New York for the author between 1866 and 1869, with plates lithographed and colored by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia.

A single dark bird with an olive-buff breast and a bright yellow bill stands in profile on a mossy rock ledge, with tufts of coarse grass in the foreground and a soft sky of pink and yellow cloud behind it. The lettering at the lower left reads "Drawn from Nature by J. Wolf, London 1868", and the Bowen & Co. imprint stands at the lower right.

Elliot's folio set life-size figures of birds that Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon had not illustrated, concentrating on species of the American West and the Alaskan and Arctic regions. Joseph Wolf, the London natural history painter, supplied a number of the original drawings.

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