...and an eagle

Gray, J. E.

Lined fishing eagle [From: Illustrations of Indian Zoology. Chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke F. R. S.].

Published 1831
Item ID 72423
€220.00

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London, Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, 1831. Folio (46.5 x 33.2 cm). Fine lithographed plate with original hand-colouring.

A fine, very large illustration of a lined fishing eagle ( Haliaetus lineatus), a species newly described by the great British zoologist John Edward Gray (1800-1875). It was drawn and lithographed by the British illustrator Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), who became famous as a sculptor of life-size models of dinosaurs - for instance in Crystal Palace Park in south London, and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Plates not numbered. According to Zimmer no text other than the captions was published. Sawyer, The Dates of Issue of J. E. Gray's "Illustrations of Indian Zoology"; Zimmer, pp. 272-273.

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