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Antique Bird Print of Richardson's Skua, 1907
€90 ($100, £75, €90)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1907
- Size
- 8.7 × 6.1 in (22 × 15.4 cm)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- 20th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_26565342
Richardson's skua, an original color-printed bird plate from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis Bonhote, published in 1907. The plate is printed in soft, pale tones that resemble watercolor, and the image is without a printed caption.
Two birds are shown at the edge of the sea. A dark brown skua stands upright on a rock at the center of the plate, its hooked bill and long pointed central tail feathers clearly drawn against a hazy background of pale blue, which suggests distant ice or coast. At its left a second bird, barred and buff-yellow in color, sits on the water with its head turned back over its shoulder. The pair illustrate the dark and the barred plumages of this seabird, a breeder of Arctic coasts and tundra that is called the parasitic jaeger in North America.
John Lewis Bonhote was an English ornithologist who was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as private secretary to the Governor of the Bahamas in 1897 and was later secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union and of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds of Britain, in which this plate appeared, belongs to the series of color-plate bird books of the Edwardian period.
