Description: Egyptian Vulture 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 1872, this is a reprint.Suitable for framing, the printed area size is approx 8" x 12" or 20.5cm x 30.5cm 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. EGYPTIAN VULTURE, Neophron percnopterus. Hand-coloured lithograph by H. C. Richter from an original drawing by J. Wolf, pl. 1 (in Part 21, 1872) from Vol. 1 of J. Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73. This picture portrays the smallest and most abundant of the four European species of vulture, distinguished from all other birds of prey by its small, pointed head and long, thin bill. From Gould's comments it seems that the first Egyptian Vulture to be recorded in Britain had been shot in Somersetshire in October 1825, the second in Essex in September 1868. The first was discovered "feeding upon the carcass of a dead sheep, and had so gorged itself with the carrion as to be unable or unwilling to fly to any great distance at a time, and was therefore approached and shot without much difficulty". It was described as a young bird of the first or second year. The Essex bird, when surprised by a labourer, was feeding upon the blood of a goose it had killed. "The bird flew away," says Gould, "and the man loaded his gun. Presently it came again and hovered over the spot in hopes of another spell at the blood; but his fate was sealed, and he fell dead to the labourer's shot." Gould, who examined the bird later, says, "it was from this specimen that the reduced figure in my Plate was taken." He is presumably referring to the smaller of the two figures. The Egyptian Vulture, which is native to most of Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East and India, must have seemed a very exotic visitor when it appeared in two English parishes, for, as Gould points out, "the British Islands are not a favourite place of resort for any of the Vultures."
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Artist: Joseph Wolf
Colour: Multi-Colour
Style: Vintage
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Material: Paper
Date of Creation: Original Date 1872
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
Item Height: Please see item description
Theme: Animals, Nature, Natural History
Production Technique: Lithography
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Time Period Produced: Same as Year of Production
