Bargain discounted small Eider Duck antique print, c1897

by Bowdler-Sharpe, Richard

Delightful Eider Duck chromolithograph.

Original colour-printed lithograph for Edward Lloyd's Natural History by Richard Bowdler-Sharpe. The small lithographic plate for this lithograph was adapted from the steel plate engraved by William Home Lizars 60 years earlier for a series on waterbirds

There is a mark on this print at lower left. This lithograph measures 11.3 x 18cm (4 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches).