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Antique Bird Print of a Saddle-Billed Stork and American Flamingo '1853'
€100 ($110, £85, €100)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1853
- Size
- 10.2 × 7.1 in (26 × 18 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning, minor wear and foxing. Blank verso, please study images carefully.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_21718502
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.
A saddle-billed stork and a flamingo standing in a marsh, an original engraving from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by Emm. Le Maout, published in 1853. The plate is printed in black on a toned ground, with the French captions "Jabiru de Sénégal" and "Flammant rouge" lettered beneath the image, one under each bird.
The stork stands at the left with its long red-banded bill pointed to the right, its black head and neck, black and white body and long legs drawn in detail. The flamingo at the right bends its long neck around in a loop, with its head lowered to the water at the lower left, where water lilies float in the foreground. Behind both birds are the fronds of a large palm or cycad, and reeds and low marsh plants fill the edges of the scene.
Jean-Emmanuel-Marie Le Maout (1799 to 1877) was a French naturalist, and his illustrated natural history of birds was published in Paris.
