The Black-Whiskered Vireo – An 1807 Large Hand-Colored Ornithological Print

1807 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

The Black-Whiskered Vireo – An 1807 Large Hand-Colored Ornithological Print

Name: The Black-Whiskered Vireo – An 1807 Large Hand-Colored Ornithological Print
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13363-2
Price: 560 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1807
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 51.5 × 34.4 cm (20.3 × 13.5 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, adding to its patina. Minor wear and foxing, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13363-2

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

The black-whiskered vireo, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Le Moucherolle altiloque", with the Latin name "Muscicapa altiloqua", from Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique septentrionale, published about 1807. The plate is lettered "pl. 38", and the credits below read "Prêtre pinx.", "Langlois imp." and "Bouquet sculp.", naming the painter, the printer and the engraver.

The small bird perches near the end of a lichen-covered branch, turned to the left, with a pale eyebrow stripe over a brown crown, an olive-green back and tail, and a white breast and belly shaded with pale yellow. The wing feathers are drawn in fine detail, with warm edging, and the whole is shown at close to life size on a large sheet of cream paper.

The species is now Vireo altiloquus, a migrant that breeds in southern Florida and across the West Indies and winters in northern South America. Vieillot placed it with the flycatchers, as the Latin name on the plate shows.

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