Print Description
two Long-Billed Snipes on a shoreline.
Made by Daniel Giraud Elliott after own design.
Medium: Handcoloured lithograph. on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 53.2 x 45.2 cm (20.94 x 17.8 inch). Image size: 46 x 33 cm. (18.11 x 12.99 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BIRD-ORNITHOLOGY-LONG BILLED SNIPE-MACRORHAMPHUS | DPO-PCO-B1-16
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This print originates from ‘The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America’, published 1866-1869. Of this work only 200 copies were printed.
Biography artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) was an American zoologist, and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the American Ornithologists’ Union, and the Societe Zoologique de France. He used his great wealth to create sumptuous books with color-plates, with texts written by himself. Coloured by Philada.
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