White-Tailed Ptarmigan Audubon Color Print 1850s Octavo Edition Plate #302

Description

The Item is an Audubon Color Print
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Adult, in Winter Plumage
The Later Printings of the Octavo Edition of Birds of America wer published by Audubon from the late 1840s to the 1850s and totaled 7 Volumes and contained 500 hand-colored lithographs.
To determine  editions of the prints:
Size:  The octavo edition bird prints are typically around 6 ½” x 10” in size.
Images: The images were printed as black and white (from Havell prints using Camera Lucida ) on cotton-rag paper by stone lithography, followed by skillful hand-coloring of each image. There is no dot-matrix pattern.
First Edition vs Later Editions:   The first edition bird prints do not have a background color (with the exception of three plates which have a background color: 19-Iceland-Jer Falcon, 28-Snowy Owl, and 34-Barn Owl). The second and later editions have a background color in either an amorphous cloudy shape or a distinct square color block. In the First edition, plates 1-150, and 186-189 carry credits at the bottom in block letters; all the remaining plates carry credits in italic letters. All other  editions have the credits at the bottom in block letters.
This Print is in very good to excellent condition with a few small bits of foxing and is mounted in an archival mat.
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