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Antique Bird Print of a Young and Adult Temminck's Auk Made After D.G. Elliot
$885 (£670, €790)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- Not stated
- Size
- 24.6 × 27.6 in (62.5 × 70 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Please study image carefully.
- Artist or book
- Temminck
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_9152891
- Colour
- Printed colour
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.
Adult and young Temminck's auks, a color lithograph lettered "Brachyramphus Temminckii, Adult and Young", from Daniel Giraud Elliot's "The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America", published between 1866 and 1869. The sheet is lettered as drawn from nature by Elliot and printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia.
The adult stands on the right on a brown rocky shelf, with a dark crested head, a white breast and barred gray wings. The young bird, smaller and with a plainer head, stands behind it to the left. The coast falls away to a calm sea under a band of orange and blue light, and a colony of small birds sits on the rocks at the far right.
The work appeared between 1866 and 1869 and set out to figure North American species not previously illustrated. Only 200 copies were printed, and the lithography was by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia.
