Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869

1869 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869

Name: Spectacular Antique Bird Print of an Adult and Young Temminck's Auk, 1869
Brand: John James Audubon
SKU: BGI-00196
Price: 2070 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1869
Maker: John James Audubon
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 48.5 × 59 cm (19.1 × 23.2 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BGI-00196

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

Temminck's auk, adult and young (Brachyramphus Temminckii), an original large folio 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, with hand coloring. The plate is lettered "Brachyramphus Temminckii, adult and young", with "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot, F.Z.S." at the lower left and the imprint "Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila." at the lower right.

Two seabirds stand on a rocky headland above a calm sea. The adult at the right, upright with a pale crest swept back from the head, has a white breast and gray-brown back, while the smaller young bird at the left is paler about the face. A band of warm sunrise color lies along the horizon, and small groups of birds are scattered on the rocks and in the air in the distance.

Elliot intended the work to supply life-size figures of species discovered since the time of Wilson and Audubon, with an emphasis on birds of the American West and the northern Pacific coast. The lithographs were printed in Philadelphia by Bowen and colored by hand.

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