Description: Black Kite Vintage 1991 Bird Print Joseph Wolf A colour print, rescued from a disbound book of Bird prints from 1991, with unrelated text on the reverse. Original printing date 1844, this is a reprint.Suitable for framing, the printed area size is approx 8.5" x 11.25" or 21.5cm x 28.5cm plus a small white border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy 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. For U.K. customers - When a payable postage option is selected you will only ever pay one charge if you use the "add to basket" option and make one single payment at checkout. For non U.K. customers - You will only pay one postage/shipping charge if you select the "add to basket" or "add to cart" option and make one single payment at checkout. 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. LE TIERCELET (immature male of the Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis). Hand-coloured lithograph by J. Wolf, with additional details by C. Scheuren, p1. 11 (c. 1844) from H. Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst's Traité de Fauconnerie, 1844-53. As the Netherlands were for long the centre of European falconry, it is not surprising that two Dutchmen should have published the most impressive of all books on the subject. What makes it impressive, of course, are Wolf's life-size illustrations. This is one of the dozen lithographs he executed for Schlegel and Wulverhorst's Traité de Fauconnerie. It portrays a male bird, whose vertically disposed markings on its breast show that it is immature. These are the kind of markings, mentioned in the description of the previous plate, which so pleased John Gould, who says that "in no one member of the great family of falcons does there occur a greater dissimilarity between the young bird of the year, with the lanceolate markings of its breast, and the fully adult, in which the same part is crossed by numerous fine bars." The ancient craft of falconry developed in the Old World, but the sport is now being practised with great enthusiasm and ingenuity in North America. There they now take advantage of the Northern Goshawk's natural hunting tendencies by training it to pursue birds and mammals in wooded environments. To help them find it and its prey after a strike they attach a bell to its legs.
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Location: Dereham
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Artist: Joseph Wolf
Colour: Multi-Colour
Style: Vintage
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Paper
Date of Creation: Original Date 1844
Year of Production: 1991
Features: Bookplate
Subject: Birds
Originality: Reproduction
Print Surface: Paper
Type: Print
Item Length: Prints measure width and height only
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: n/a
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Theme: Animals, Nature, Natural History
Production Technique: Lithography
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Time Period Produced: Same as Year of Production