C1855

Ptarmigan

Artist:

Benjamin Fawcett (1808 - 1893)

$A 175

Superb engraving from “British Game Birds & Wild Fowl”, it is the best record of this genre. This being the best issue without a centre fold.

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S/N: BGBWF-011-BI-OS–221438
(C080)
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Full Title:

Ptarmigan

Date:

C1855

Artist:

Benjamin Fawcett (1808 - 1893)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Engraving with original hand colouring.

Image Size: 

280mm 
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Ptarmigan - Antique Print from 1855

Genuine antique
dated:

1855

Description:

Superb engraving from “British Game Birds & Wild Fowl”, it is the best record of this genre. This being the best issue without a centre fold.

Artist:

Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893)
Morris was an Irish clergyman, notable as “parson-naturalist” (ornithologist and entomologist) and as the author of many children’s books and books on natural history and heritage buildings. He was a pioneer of the movement to protect birds from the plume trade and was a co-founder of the Plumage League. He died on 10 February 1893 and was buried at Nunburnholme, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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