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  • [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds and feathers]

    [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds and feathers]

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    Image of a penmanship calligraphy practice page with looping letters, birds, and feathers.

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  • [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds, feathers, and letters]

    [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds, feathers, and letters]

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    Image of a penmanship calligraphy practice page with looping letters, birds, and feathers.

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  • [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds, feathers, and signatures]

    [Paper with drawings of ornamental penmanship birds, feathers, and signatures]

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    Image of a penmanship calligraphy practice page with looping letters, birds, and feathers.

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    A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains [graphic]

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    Three hand-colored lithographs of ornithological illustrations from A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains. Prints include depictions of Vanellus goensis (plate 78), Ibidorhyncha struthersii (plate 79), and Anser indica (plate 80). All illustrations present the birds from a side-profile while posed standing on grassy plains. The birds' feathers, markings, beaks, and legs are colored. All prints include their title in the lower center, with signatures on lower left reading, "Drawn from Nature & on Stone by E. Gould", and lower right reading, "Printed by C. Hullmandel." The print for Anser indica includes text below the title that reads "2/3 Nat. Size," indicating that the other illustrations are life-size depictions of the specimens.

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  • Birds to Paint

    Birds to Paint

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    One painting book entitled Birds to Paint, published by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio, 1910. The front cover features a parrot with a yellow head. On the back cover is a child's writing; the name "Louise" can be read. Thirty images of various birds are included, six of which have an identical color image. These color images were meant to guide the student in the use of color. The first page describes the book as: "a paint book for boys and girls which supplies sketches ready to color." Most of the images have been filled in with crayon rather than watercolor.

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    Birds of America [graphic]

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    A set of six giclée prints printed in 2023 of art created from 2015 to 2018 by artist John LaMacchia and illustrators Daniel (Dan) Cole and Peter David Scott. Each print includes images of birds reminiscent of John James Audubon's illustrations in Birds of America (1827) but are set in modern natural environments that have been littered by humans with garbage and plastic waste such as helium balloons, convenience store bags, prescription pill bottles, syringes, six-pack rings, and other examples of packaged goods and products. Titles include: Eastern Towhee (2015); Blue Jay (2016); Red Knot (2016); Double-Crested Cormorant (2016); Great Blue Heron (2016); and The Mourning Dove (2018). The prints are titled and labeled in cursive, and each print includes the edition number in the top-left corner, the printer's name in the bottom-left corner, and the illustrator's name in the bottom-right corner. Dan Cole is signed as the illustrator for five of the prints, and Peter David Scott is signed as the illustrator for one print, The Mourning Dove. The lower-right corner of each print also includes a chop (printer's mark) blind embossed with John LaMacchia's name and initials. This is the tenth edition out of the fifty that were printed.

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