Antique Hand-Coloured Bird Print of the Long-Tailed-Tit by Sepp & Nozeman, 1770

Marsh Tit with Nest Antique Dutch Bird Print by Sepp and Nozeman, c.1770 This delicately hand-coloured engraving titled Parus Palustris depicts the marsh tit (Poecile palustris), kn...

Blaeuwe Mees (Parus caeruleus) – Hand-Coloured Engraving with Text, 1770–1829 An exquisite hand-coloured engraving of the Eurasian blue tit (Parus caeruleus), from Nederlandsche Vogelen; volgens hunne huisdouding, aert, en eigenschappen beschreeven (Amsterdam, 1770–1829) by Cornelius Nozeman, M. Houttuyn and J.C. Sepp. This monumental multi-volume work was the first comprehensive ornithological study published in the Netherlands, illustrating and describing native birds in life-like poses and natural surroundings, often close to life-size. This example features a lively composition of two blue tits perched on and around a hollow tree stump, the nest...

The image is an ornate botanical and ornithological illustration from one of Johann Michael Seligmann's collections, which were based on George Edwards's natural history studies. Th...

Antique print titled 'Passer Arboreus'. Antique print depicting the Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Dutch: Ringmus). The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the spa...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a Greenfinch bird and a tree sparrow ("1, Le Friquet, 2. Le Verdier") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 227 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux...

A hand-colored copperplate engraving of a bird and plants by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) entitled "The Crested Titmous" from "The Natural History of Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the Bahama Islands", published in 1731. It depicts a small Crested Titmous bird, facing left, perched on the stem of a plant with clusters of mauve colored star-like flowers. This original Catesby hand-colored engraving, on laid paper with a large central Fleur-de-Lys watermark, is presented in a cream color French mat. The mat measures 20" x 15.5" and the sheet measures 18.75" x 14.75". Mark Catesby was born in England to a prosperous family, but he traveled to America, first to visit his sister and her husband in 1712. From 1712 to 1719 he explored America observing its birds and plants, taking notes, creating drawings and collecting specimens. He returned to England with this material and created more detailed drawings. His next visit to America 1722-1726 allowed for more detailed research. Upon his return to England he created his monumental and beautiful work "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands", which was published in London in two folio volumes of 11 parts each consisting of 20 plates...

Long-Tailed Tit is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by Lon...

Great image of a Blue Tit Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon. Original color P...