Four Framed Ornithological Prints.

Description:

Four Framed Ornithological Prints. Three hand-colored lithographs after John Gould (1804-1881): the bower bird Gould calls Ailuroedus Arfakianus, now called Ailuroedus Melanotis, or white-eared catbird, of Indonesia and Papua, New Guinea; the red-breasted paradise kingfisher eating a lizard, Tanysiptera Nympha, from the same region; and the spotted laughing thrush, or Ianthocincla Ocellata, of the Himalayas; and one hand-colored lithograph of an anomalous cuckoo-roller, Leptosoma Discolor, by the Dutch bird illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912).
Estimate $1,000-1,500

The Cuckoo Rooler is 19 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.; the Tanysiptera is 20 x 26 in.; the ianthocincla is 22 1/2 x 28 in.; and the Ailuroedus is 21 x 29 in. All measurements overall including frame. All prints are matted and framed, not examined out of frames.

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