Hand colored with illustration of three different woodpeckers, Ivory Bill, Piliated and Red Headed, marked lower left Drawn from nature by A. Wilson and lower right engraved by A. Lawson, 10x13 1/2", in grain painted ogee frame, 12 1/2 x 16 1/2". Alexander Wilson, Scottish American ornithologist (17766-1813) was the first to attempt to illustrate the birds of North America, many years before John James Audubon, considered by many as the father of North American Ornithology. Condition even toning else VG.