Hoopoe Bird Print Picture Vintage Eleazar Albin Old 1990 CNHPBI#09

Description: Hoopoe Vintage 1990 Bird Print Eleazar Albin A colour print, rescued from a disbound book of Bird prints from 1990, with unrelated text on the reverse. This is a 1990 reprint of an original book plate from 1731Suitable for framing, the printed area size is approx 8.5" x 10.75" or 21.5cm x 27cm plus a small white border. This is a vintage print and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print due to being on the reverse side of the previous print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. Hoopoe HOOP OR HOOPOE HEN (now Hoopoe, Upupa epops). Hand coloured etching, pl. 42 from Vol. 2 of Eleazar Albin's A Natural History of Birds, with Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life, 1731-38. Apart from showing us a characteristic pose of the Hoopoe the plate reproduced here is interesting because it was published in the earliest illustrated book about British birds, was engraved by the author after one of his own drawings, and was issued hand coloured (a rare circumstance in Albin's day). The stiff pose and contrived perch were to be echoed in a majority of eighteenth-century bird illustrations published in Europe and North America. We may be certain that Albin's original drawing was taken from a stuffed specimen of the bird because he tells us he received it from a Mr Starkey Mayor who had shot it in his garden at Woodford, Epping Forest. It was unusual then for birds to be drawn from living examples. The bird's strange English name is said to be derived from its distinctive call, up up; but the bird is called 'Huppe' in French which employs the same word to denote a bird's crest. Certainly the crest is the Hoopoe's most distinctive feature and has assured it a place in the folklore and legends of Europe, Africa, Arabia, India and Malaysia. It is also the feature which makes Albin's illustration so arresting, in spite of the bird's stiff pose.

Price: 4.99 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2024-12-28T23:27:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 20.85 GBP