Beautiful and scarce hand-colored Plate 2 (Ruffed Grouse or Pheasant) from the first major sport color plate book produced in America. Carefully colored at the time of publication by Thomas Doughty, founding-father of the Hudson River School, America's first native art movement. From Volume 1 of John and Thomas Doughty's, Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports, published 1830. Of the three volumes in this series, volume 1 is the most important, as it contains original plates by Doughty. On thick paper. Couple of tiny marks in bottom margin. PLATE NOT MATTED; PHOTO SHOWN FOR DEMO PURPOSES ONLY. 7.25 x 9.

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