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Antique Bird Print of the Pied Avocet by Goldfuss, circa 1824
£510 ($670, €600)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1824
- Size
- 23.6 × 18.9 in (60 × 48 cm)
- Condition
- Fair. General age-related toning. Shows wear and a few defects (mainly in margins). Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_18742072
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.
Antique bird print titled 'Gatt Recurvirostra'. Large lithograph of the pied avocet, a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and across the Palearctic to Central Asia then on to the Russian Far East. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia.
This print originates from ' 'Naturalist Atlas' by Georg August Goldfuss. This extra large-size collection of lithographs with gorgeous recent coloring depicting animals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc. published in Duesseldorf, at Arnz from 1824-1842 this work was issued over this long period of time in series of twenty prints each per annum. There are no officially bound copies and they were issued uncolored.
