Hugh Piper

Geese & Ducks

1888

ANIMATE CREATION “Our Living World” Reverend J. G. Wood Chromolithograph Louis Prang, Publisher Boston, Massachusetts 1885 9” x 12.5” An all-encompassing work, Wood’s encyclopedia illustrated birds and animals from around the world. Exotics from Africa, Asia and South America hold rank with cattle and sheep. This is one of the most complete collection of species then known to man. Each is rendered with complete scientific accuracy. Wood was in the company of the great illustrators of the nineteenth century. The natural history illustrations...

ANIMATE CREATION “Our Living World” Reverend J. G. Wood Chromolithograph Louis Prang, Publisher Boston, Massachusetts 1885 9” x 12.5” An all-encompassing work, Wood’s encyclopedia illustrated birds and animals from around the world. Exotics from Africa, Asia and South America hold rank with cattle and sheep. This is one of the most complete collection of species then known to man. Each is rendered with complete scientific accuracy. Wood was in the company of the great illustrators of the nineteenth century. The natural history illustrations...

Framed to museum specifications using acid-free matting, backing, and hinging. Suede mat has wooden bevel. Glazed with ultra-violet filtering Plexiglas to inhibit fading.

Beautifully hand-colored lithograph illustrating farm animals.

ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924) Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States 20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed Scribner’s Sons, New York 1877-78 Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...

Hugh Piper Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition...

This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored 1st octavo edition lithograph entitled "Rocky Mountain Flycatcher, Male, Swamp Oak. Quecus Aquatica", No. 12, Plate 6...

An original John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Pennant's Marten or Fisher", No. 9, Plate XLI from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in Phi...

This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Saucerottia Cyanifrons", Blue-capped Saucerottia Hummingbirds by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two green, blue and a little brown colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and pink flowers. This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph has a few very small faint spots, but it is otherwise in excellent condition. The original text page is included. There are other unframed Gould hummingbird...

This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Bubo Maximus" (Great Horned or Eagle Owl) by John Gould, from the supplement to his "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Eagle Owl about to feed her brood of babies who are in the their nest. A another adult (possibly the male) is seen in the distant background in the upper right. This striking framed Gould...

'Brontops Robustus, Marsh 1/4' Lithograph by Emil Crisand after the drawing by Frederick Berger, under the supervision of Othniel Charles Marsh. Depicts dinosaur fossil...

'Brontops Robustus, Marsh 1/4' Lithograph by Emil Crisand after the drawing by Frederick Berger, under the supervision of Othniel Charles Marsh. Depicts dinosaur fossil...