Great White Fronted Goose, French antique bird duck art illustration print

1931

'Bernache Cravant' (Brent Goose) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of bi...

'Canard Pilet' (Northern Pintail) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of b...

'Canard Sauvage' (Wild Duck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of birds....

'Canard Tadorne' (Common Shelduck) French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a French series of illustrations of ...

Antique bird print titled 'Anser Albifrons - Blassengans'. Chromolithograph of the Greater white-fronted goose. This print originates from J.A. Naumann's 'Naturgeschichte der Vögel M...

Antique bird print titled 'Anser Albifrons'. Old bird print depicting the white-fronted goose. This print originates from 'Svenska Foglar Efter Naturen Och Pa Stenritade' by Magnus v...

Antique bird print titled 'Anser Albifrons'. Old bird print depicting the female white-fronted goose. This print originates from 'Svenska Foglar Efter Naturen Och Pa Stenritade' by Magnus von Wright. Artists and Engravers: Printed in Stockholm. Magnus von Wright (1805 - 68) was the first taxidermist working with the vertebrate collections of Helsinki University. Starting out as a taxidermist in the 1820's, he stuffed birds for Societas pro Flora et Fauna Fennica, the oldest scientific society in Finland, and in 1845, became taxidermist at the university's zoological museum. Von Wright made several study journeys to Stockholm and St. Petersburg, and even wrote a short manual on how mount birds. Though a skilful taxidermist, his reputation, like that of his two brothers, Wilhelm and Ferdinand, rests on his skill as a zoological illustrator. In 1859 he published the first handbook on Finnish birds...

Antique print titled 'Anas, Erythropus'. This print depicts the greater white-fronted goose (Dutch: kolgans). The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose ...