Partridges in Rural Landscape – Antique 19th Century Bird Chromolithograph

Pheasant and Wild Turkey, Antique Chromolithograph Game Birds c.1900 This vibrant antique chromolithograph features two striking game birds: the pale variant of the Common Pheasant ...

Antique Bird Print of Little Bustards in Natural Habitat, 19th Century This finely detailed 19th-century chromolithograph presents a male and female pair of Little Bustards (Otis te...

Antique print titled 'Ortygornis Ponticerriana'. Bird print of the grey partridge. This print originates from 'The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylo...

Antique print titled 'Francolinus Pictus'. Bird print of the painted partridge or southern francolin. This print originates from 'The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon' publishe...

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. ...

Game Birds Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879. 160mm by 245mm (sheet). Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.

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...

French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds. 195mm by 265mm (sheet)