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Large Rare Old Bird Print Depicting Cassin's Snow Goose, 1869
£1,565 ($2,075, €1,850)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1869
- Size
- 18.9 × 23.8 in (48 × 60.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Age-related toning. Toning around image. Few tiny tears, please study image carefully.
- Period
- Late 19th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_26397842
Cassin's Snow Goose, plate "Anser Albatus," an original hand-colored lithograph 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 large folio sheet is dated 1869 and carries the lettering "Drawn from Nature by D. G. Elliot, F.Z.S." at the lower left, and "Bowen & Co. lith. & col'd, Philada." at the lower right.
Two white geese are shown at the edge of a shallow, pebbly shoreline. A large goose stands in profile in the foreground on rounded stones, with its orange bill, orange legs and black-tipped wing feathers sharply drawn, while a second bird swims in the gray water behind it. The plumage is rendered in fine stipple and soft washes of cream and gray, and the species name is printed in capitals beneath the image.
Elliot's work was planned as a continuation of the great American bird folios of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, and concentrated on species they had not figured. It had a particular focus on the birds of the American West, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and the Rocky Mountains, and some from Alaska and the Arctic, many drawn from specimens brought back by government expeditions.
