Two Alexander Wilson Bird Prints
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Lot of Two, both hand colored, including one illustration of five different shore birds, marked Drawn by Nature by A. Wilson lowered left and Engraved by A. Lawson lower right with titles below, 13 1/2 x 10", framed 18 x 13 1/2" and print illustration four heron like birds, marked as above left and engraved by S.G. Warnicke, again with titles below, 10 xx 13 12", Framed, 12 3/4 x 16". Alexander Wilson, Scottish American Ornithologist (1766-1813) 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 both with scattered foxing, still VG.
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Two Alexander Wilson Bird Prints
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