Original Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose 'Anser Albatus', 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Original Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose 'Anser Albatus', 1869

Name: Original Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose 'Anser Albatus', 1869
Brand: Emanuel Bowen
SKU: BGI-00190
Price: 2070 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: Emanuel Bowen
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 48 × 60.5 cm (18.9 × 23.8 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00190

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, Anser albatus, an original lithograph with hand color from The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America, by Daniel Giraud Elliot, published in 1866 to 1869 and issued by Bowen & Co. The scientific name is lettered beneath the image, and the plate is dated 1869 in the catalog.

Two white geese are drawn on a pebbly shore, the large adult standing in the foreground with its head turned toward the viewer, black-edged wings folded and bright yellow feet, while a second bird swims in the shallow water behind it. The bill is dark with a pale base, the water is a flat blue-gray line, and the stones are scattered along the bank in warm tones. The credits are lettered below the image: drawn from nature by Elliot and printed from the stone.

Elliot's work on the new and little-known species of North American birds was issued in a large folio format, and the plates are among the finest American ornithological lithographs of the 1860s.

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