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Antique Bird Print of the Grey Plover by Sepp & Nozeman, 1829
£710 ($940, €840)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1829
- Size
- 14.6 × 20.9 in (37 × 53 cm)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Artist or book
- Nozeman and Sepp
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_25790842
Grey plover, the Dutch Zilverplevier, titled "Vanellus Melanogaster", a hand-colored engraving from Nederlandsche Vogelen, the Amsterdam work on Dutch birds issued by C. Nozeman, M. Houttuyn and J.C. Sepp between 1770 and 1829. The sheet is dated 1829 in the catalog.
Two birds stand facing each other on a low grassy mound. The one at left is in breeding plumage with a black face and underparts, a white crown and a mottled gray and brown back, while the one at right is in the duller, speckled plumage of winter, the pale breast and barred tail clearly drawn. The Latin name is lettered across the top. The birds are drawn close to life size, set on a small patch of turf with a few tufts of grass.
Nederlandsche Vogelen was the first major study of ornithology in the Netherlands, and the birds were depicted from life. The grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) is known in North America as the black-bellied plover.
