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A coordinated gallery of five original 1833 hand-colored hummingbird engravings from Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, offered together in custom …
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A coordinated gallery of five original 1833 hand-colored hummingbird engravings from Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, offered together in custom double mats of deep green with a narrow cool brown reveal, each finished to 9 × 12 in. All five come from Jardine’s second Humming-Birds volume, part of the subject with which the Naturalist’s Library launched in 1833.
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DETAILS
• Editor || Sir William Jardine
• Engraver || William Home Lizars
• Publisher || W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh
• Date || 1833
• Publication || The Natural History of Humming-Birds, Part II, from The Naturalist’s Library
• Titles || Trochilus Anais, Plate 2; Trochilus Wagleri, Plate 16; Trochilus Buffonii, Plate 19; Trochilus Mango, Plate 20; Trochilus Pella, Plate 24
• Medium || Original hand-colored steel engravings on paper
• Presentation || Custom double matting in deep green with a narrow cool brown reveal; each finished to 9 × 12 in.; unframed
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ABOUT THE WORKS
The Naturalist’s Library began in March 1833 with hummingbirds, and its format was deliberately designed as an alternative to the enormous, expensive natural-history folios of the period. Contemporary advertisements stressed that each compact volume was complete in itself and could be purchased separately for six shillings, while still including roughly 30–40 hand-colored plates. Lizars knew the luxury end of ornithological publishing firsthand: his Edinburgh shop had engraved the first ten plates of John James Audubon’s Birds of America before that project moved to London. These Jardine hummingbirds belong to the other side of that story — an ambitious attempt to put serious, color-illustrated natural history within reach of a much broader audience.
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- Dimensions
- 12ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 9ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Animals
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- Early 19th Century
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Printmaking Materials
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- Very good antique condition overall, with strong hand color, crisp impressions, and a cohesive presentation across the five works. The … moreVery good antique condition overall, with strong hand color, crisp impressions, and a cohesive presentation across the five works. The sheets show expected age-related toning, scattered foxing and spotting, light handling wear, and occasional localized discoloration, most noticeably on Trochilus pella; the imagery remains complete and well defined, and all five have been newly presented in clean archival double matting. Please review all photographs carefully, as they form part of the condition description. less
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