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Antique Bird Print of the Canadian Woodpecker by Audubon, c.1840
£380 ($505, €450)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1840
- Size
- 10.2 × 6.1 in (26 × 15.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_25703442
- Colour
- Hand coloured
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.
Canadian Woodpecker, a hand-colored lithograph from the first royal octavo edition of The Birds of America, drawn by John James Audubon and printed and colored by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia. The plate is numbered 52 and lettered Pl. 258 at the top, with the title and "Male" beneath the picture.
A single bird clings head down to a lichen-covered limb of a leafless tree, in black and white plumage with a striped head, in a sparse, uncluttered composition. The tree, drawn in soft brown and gray, takes up most of the sheet. Audubon's drawing credit and Bowen's imprint are lettered along the lower margin.
The royal octavo edition, issued in New York and Philadelphia from 1840 to 1844, was a smaller and cheaper version of the great folio, drawn from the original plates, and was followed by seven further editions.
