Handcolored Bird Print of a Male Quail and a Red-Legged Partridge

Description: Antique bird print titled 'Barbary Partridge (Perdix petrosa) - Greek Partridge (Perdix saxitilis).' This plate shows the Barbary Partridge and the Greek Partridge. These birds from the Partridge family...

Antique bird print titled 'Quail (Coturnix dactylisonans).' This plate shows the common quail (Coturnix coturnix). Expertly hand-coloured.John Gould: "Birds of Europe". 1832–1837...

Antique print, titled: 'European Francolin (Francolinus vulgaris).' This plate shows the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus). Expertly hand-coloured. John Gould: "Birds of ...

Antique print titled 'Tetrao, Coturnix'. This print depicts the common quail with nest and eggs (Dutch: kwartel). The common quail (Coturnix coturnix) or European quail is a small gr...

Great image of quail. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. Published...

Great image of partridge. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. ...

Chromolithograph of Ducks, laid on to contemporary card (as published). [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878]. Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He’s kn...

This is a 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled "Dendrortyx Leucophrys" (White Eye-browed Partridges) by John Gould, published in his monograph 'A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America' in London between 1844-1850. Reportedly only 250 copies were printed. The print depicts two partridges, one standing and the other lying apparently on sand, surrounded by high grass. A landscape of plants and possibly water is seen in the background. This beautiful hand-colored lithograph is presented in a double cream-colored mat. There is one tiny spot in the left lower corner, faint spots in the right upper print and mild toning about the periphery which is covered by the mat. It is otherwise in excellent condition. It is accompanied by the original text page. John Gould (1841-1881) was an English contemporary of the American John James Audubon. Gould published his first illustrated book on birds in 1831 entitled "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains", followed by "Ramphastidae" and "Birds of Europe". He then extended the scope of his travels and research to include Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, drawing birds in their natural habitat. Artists, such as his wife Elizabeth Gould, Henry Richter and Edward Lear, transferred his drawings to hand printed and hand colored stone lithographs, which are known for their beauty, detail and accuracy. As well as an exceptional and prolific artist, Gould was an outstanding scientific naturalist. In approximately 50 years he created approximately 3,000 lithographs of birds...