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Mid 19th-Century Hand-Colored Lithograph on Paper of Towhee
Item Details
A hand-colored lithograph on paper of a Pipilo aberti or Albert’s towhee, published in 1859. Published by the United States Government in the ‘Reports of Explorations and Surveys, To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River To The Pacific Ocean’. Marked in plate to the upper margin, ‘U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys – 35th Parallel/ Birds – Plate XXX’. Housed between two layers of off-white matting with French lines and wrapped in plastic.
Condition
- toning to the lithograph; wear to corners of matting.
Dimensions
14.0" W x 16.5" H x 0.001" D
- measures matting; sight size 6.5" W x 8" H.
Item #
16NYC998-1584
