Scooping Avocet
London: W. Lizars, c.1833. Notes: John Prideaux Selby (1788 -1867) “ was...gifted as an artist, and his series of Illustrations of British Ornithology are outstandingly beautiful. In many people’s estimation, the clarity and crispness of his figures gives them an austere beauty that is lacking in the lithographs of H.L. Meyer’s and John Gould’s books... The cool, classical quality of Selby’s plates belongs to the age of elegance and could have never been achieved by the Victorian John Gould. Selby’s bird figures were the most accurate delineations of British birds to that date, and the liveliest” (Jackson)
, Image Size : , Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 410x560 (mm), 16.125x22 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Natural History Zoology;. Excellent. Item #P1065
Notes: John Prideaux Selby (1788 -1867) “ was...gifted as an artist, and his series of Illustrations of British Ornithology are outstandingly beautiful. In many people’s estimation, the clarity and crispness of his figures gives them an austere beauty that is lacking in the lithographs of H.L. Meyer’s and John Gould’s books... The cool, classical quality of Selby’s plates belongs to the age of elegance and could have never been achieved by the Victorian John Gould. Selby’s bird figures were the most accurate delineations of British birds to that date, and the liveliest” (Jackson)
, Image Size : , Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 410x560 (mm), 16.125x22 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Medium: Copper Engraving, Categories: Natural History Zoology;.
Price: $875.00