Curlew Sandpiper - Hand-Colored Wood Engraving, Morris Birds - 1851
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Curlew Sandpiper - Hand-Colored Wood Engraving, Morris Birds - 1851

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Original hand-colored engraving of the Curlew Sandpiper, from A History of British Birds by the Reverend Francis Orpen Morris. Wood engraving drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon and printed by Benjamin Fawcett, the bird shown in profile on a barely indicated shore.

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Original hand-colored engraving of the Curlew Sandpiper, from A History of British Birds by the Reverend Francis Orpen Morris. Wood engraving drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon and printed by Benjamin Fawcett, the bird shown in profile on a barely indicated shore.

Medium: Wood engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Engraver / printer: Benjamin Fawcett.
Date: 1851.
Source: Francis Orpen Morris, A History of British Birds.
Dimensions: 4.7 x 7.2 in (12 x 18.2 cm).
Condition: Good. Fresh color; slight damp spots in the left margin and a small irregularity at the upper edge from removal from the volume.

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