Author: Meyer, H. L.
Title: Bird plates. Greater black backed gull (Adult in perfect winter plumage), Larus marinus Linn.
Description: London, the author, ca. 1835. Folio (37.3 x 27.5 cm). Well preserved hand-painted engraving of a bird in its natural surroundings. = This is a lovely hand-coloured plate from the finest and most complete atlas of portraits of British avifauna ever published. Drawn and printed for the author - the Dutch-born British ornithologist Henry Meyer - and finely coloured by his wife, Mary Anne, or one of their daughters. This print is in very good condition. Some spotting, mainly to right margin. No creases, dents or tears present.

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