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Antique Hand-Colored Print of North American White-Headed Woodpecker Birds, 1869
€592 ($665, £500, €592)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1869
- Size
- 23.8 × 18.9 in (60.5 × 48 cm)
- Condition
- Very good, general age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_26680492
White-headed woodpecker (Xenopicus albolarvatus), an original large folio lithograph with hand coloring from Daniel Giraud Elliot's The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, published in New York for the author between 1866 and 1869. The plate is lettered "Xenopicus albolarvatus" and carries the notes "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot, F.Z.S." and "Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila." beneath the image.
Two woodpeckers with white heads and black bodies are shown at life size on a weathered, broken stump. One clings to the side of the trunk facing down and to the right, and the other perches higher at the right facing left, with the white wing patch visible on the folded wing. Pale green lichen drapes the dead wood, and at the foot of the plate a small landscape shows a lake and a church spire in the distance.
Elliot described the species of the American West that had not been figured by Wilson or Audubon, among them birds of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, many from specimens collected on government expeditions. The white-headed woodpecker lives in the pine forests of the western mountains.
