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Platalea Leucorodia (Spoonbill) /// Ornithology John Gould Bird Animal Shorebird
By John Gould
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
) Portfolio: The Birds of Great Britain Year: 1862-1873 Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper
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1860s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Red Phalarope /// Ornithology John James Audubon Bird Animal Landscape Havell
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
. 51) Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition Year: 1835 Medium: Original Hand-Colored
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1830s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Watercolor, Intaglio, Engraving, Aquatint

Le Millouinan /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck Natural History
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signature) lower right Year: 1770
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1770s Realist Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Bird Eggs - Antique egg colour woodblock print, 1875
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut

Bird Eggs - Antique egg colour woodblock print, 1875
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut

Bird Eggs - Antique egg colour woodblock print, 1875
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut

Bird Eggs - Antique egg colour woodblock print, 1875
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut

Bird Eggs - Antique egg colour woodblock print, 1875
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg colour woodblock , 1880, from Francis Orpen Morris’, 'A Natural History of the
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut

"Shaft-Tailed Widah, " Antique Bird Print
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Hand-colored signed engraving after bird illustration by William Hayes (1735-1802) from "Portraits
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Engraving

Eared Grebe /// John James Audubon Ornithology Havell Edition Bird Animal Art
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
. 81) Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition Year: 1838 Medium: Original Hand-Colored
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1830s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio

Snow Bunting /// Ornithology John James Audubon Bird Animal Landscape Havell Art
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
No. 38) Portfolio: The Birds of America, Havell Edition Year: 1834 Medium: Original Hand-Colored
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1830s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving, Aquatint, Watercolor, Intaglio, Rosewood

Lesser Moddy and Moddy Tern, antique sea bird chromolithograph print, 1889
By Gracius Broinowski
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
illustrate Australian animals and birds for display in classrooms. Afterwards he prepared his own 'The Birds
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Marsh Tern and White Tern, antique sea bird chromolithograph print, 1889
By Gracius Broinowski
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
illustrate Australian animals and birds for display in classrooms. Afterwards he prepared his own 'The Birds
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Sooty Tern and Panayan Tern, antique sea bird chromolithograph print, 1889
By Gracius Broinowski
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
illustrate Australian animals and birds for display in classrooms. Afterwards he prepared his own 'The Birds
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signature) lower left
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1770s Realist Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
)" (Plate 953) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signature
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1770s Realist Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio

European bird eggs, German antique chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eier europaischer Vogel II' (European bird eggs) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 305mm by
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

European bird eggs, German antique chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eier europaischer Vogel I' (European bird eggs) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. 305mm by
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

'Song Thrush and Long-Tail Tit', bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Song Thrush and Long-Tail Tit' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bird Eggs - Antique egg chromolithograph print, 1905
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique bird egg chromolithograph , 1905, after Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940). 175mm by 105mm (image
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Skylark', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Skylark' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

'Jay', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Jay' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

'Chaffinch', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Chaffinch' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature Pictures
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Coromandel" (Plate 949) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed
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1770s Realist Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Intaglio, Laid Paper, Engraving, Watercolor

A Group of Four engraved and hand-coloured Birds Nests.
By Cornelis Nozeman and Jan Christiaan Sepp
Located in London, GB
NOZEMAN, Cornelius and Jan Christian SEPP. A Group of Four Birds Nests: NIDUS ARDEAE, Nycticoracis
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1770s Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor

Bird and Beetle - Etching and watercolor (Natural History of Birds, 1741)
By George Edwards
Located in Paris, FR
George EDWARDS Bird and beetle ('The Gowry Bird') Original engraving, enhanced with watercolor
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1740s Academic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

Set of Four Hand Colored Humming Bird Prints
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Here are four framed hand colored humming bird species published in the early 20th century
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Paint, Paper

'Yellow-Hammer', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Yellow-Hammer' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

'Black Leghorn Chick', English bird print after Edward Detmold, circa 1919
By After Edward Detmold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Black Leghorn Chick' Colour plate mounted on card with a printed border from 'The Detmold Nature
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Color

Vintage Print, Grasshopper, Fish, "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds..."
By George Edwards
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrapeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, etc
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Mid-18th Century Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Etching

Northern Buzzard, Australian bird of prey, antique lithograph print, c1915
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Australia, circa 1915. Henrik Gronvold was a Danish
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Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Allied Kite, Australian bird of prey, antique lithograph print, c1915
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Australia, circa 1915. Henrik Gronvold was a Danish naturalist and
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Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Hoopoe and Lyre Bird, bird engraving with original hand-colouring, 1849
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Passereaux. Dentirostres. 1. Le Roi des Gobe -Mouches ou Moucherolle a huppe transverse, Buff. (Muscicapa regia) 2. Menure lyre (Macnura lyra. Vieill) ' Steel-engraving with origin...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

Bird Catching from Below, Scotland, aquatint engraving field sport print, 1813
By Samuel Howitt
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Bird Catching from Below' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Aquatint

Partridge (Bird)
By Louis Prang
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Boston, Massachusetts 1885 9” x 12.5” An all-encompassing work, Wood’s encyclopedia illustrated birds
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1880s Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Partridge  (Bird)
H 19.25 in W 15.5 in D 1 in
Partridge (Bird)
By Louis Prang
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Boston, Massachusetts 1885 9” x 12.5” An all-encompassing work, Wood’s encyclopedia illustrated birds
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1880s Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Partridge  (Bird)
H 19.25 in W 15.5 in D 1 in
Indian Wryneck Birds (Yunx indica): A 19th C. Gould Hand-colored Lithograph
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Alamo, CA
Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Asia", published in London in 1850-1883. The print, which was
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Honey Buzzard Bird: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Alamo, CA
Apivorus (The Honey Buzzard) by John Gould, plate 6 in volume 1 of his "Birds of Great Britain", published
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Harlequin Humming-Bird, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

Bird - Original Woodcut - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original woodcut realized by an artist of the early 20th Century. The artwork is in
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Early 20th Century Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Woodcut, Paper

Red-tailed Tropic Bird, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

Lesser White Throat, bird and nest engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

Night Heron Birds: An Original 19th C. Audubon Hand-colored Bird Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
of the animals was published 3 years before Audubon died. As with the birds, this was followed by a
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Traveling animals - Original etching enhanced with watercolor
By George Edwards
Located in Paris, FR
George EDWARDS Traveling animals Original engraving enhanced with watercolor Signed in the plate
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1740s Academic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

"Blue Bird Feeding Her Chicks" Attributed to T'eih Tao-jen, Printed in U.S.A.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Print Measures 18 x 24in. Good Condition. Printed in U.S.A.
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Late 19th Century Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Three Gould Hand-colored Lithographs from Birds of Australia and New Zealand
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
beautiful sea bird prints are presented in identical very attractive brown wood frames, embellished with
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1840s Academic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Pygmy Parrot and Three Coloured Lorikeet, French bird colour engraving, 1839
By Da Casse after A Fries
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Perroquets 1 Psittacule pygmee 2 Lori tricolore' Engraving with original hand-colouring by Da Casse after A Fries From Guerin-Meneville's 'Dictionnaire Pittoresque D'histoire Nat...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

John Gould - Trichoglossus goldiei-(Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan)
By John Gould
Located in BRUCE, ACT
ornithology lithograph with hand-finished color is from the esteemed John Gould’s "Birds of New Guinea and the
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Early 18th Century Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Siberian eared Owl and Acadian Owl, 18th century bird engraving by John Latham
By John Latham
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. 1781. From John Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds' 1781-1785, and its
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Engraving

Outlaw Birds And Dog Go To Rebel - Lithograph by J.J Grandville - 1852
By Jean Jeacques Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Outlaw Birds And Dog Go To Rebel is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by J.J
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1850s Modern Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Enten (Ducks), German antique bird chromolithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Enten' (Ducks) German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Key to ducks in German below the image. 245mm by 305mm (sheet). Central vertical fold as issued.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Lord Howe Island White-Eye and others, Bird lithograph with hand-colouring, 1928
By After Henrik Gronvold
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands and The Australasian South
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Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Lithograph

Arctic Fox /// Natural History Animal John James Audubon Watercolor Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
", Imperial Bowen Edition (1845-1848), which consists of 150 hand-colored prints, made from lithographed
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1840s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

"Weaver Birds, " Original Color Lithograph by Louis Prang
By Louis Prang
Located in Milwaukee, WI
this print, Prang explores relatively unknown and "exotic" animals.
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Late 19th Century American Realist Antique Animal And Bird Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Grey Fox /// Natural History Animal Nature John James Audubon Antique Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
hand-colored prints, made from lithographed plates. The gray fox, or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal
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1850s Victorian Antique Animal And Bird Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

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Antique Animal And Bird Prints For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of antique animal and bird prints for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Art Deco, contemporary and abstract versions of these works for sale. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. You can search the antique animal and bird prints that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, gray, brown and white. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by John James Audubon, Lisa Houck, Jennifer Ross, After Henrik Gronvold and Todd Gray are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in lithograph, linocut and paper, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are Antique Animal And Bird Prints?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — antique animal and bird prints in our inventory begin at $38 and can go as high as $28,000, while the average can fetch as much as $462.

Finding the Right prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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