Meleagris Gallopavo, male Wild Turkey, superb Lizars engraving c1840

by Lizars, William Home

American Turkey antique print c1820. Hand-coloured steel engraving by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) for Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library 'Gallinaceous Birds' in the series of Ornithology, printed in Edinburgh circa 1820 by W.H. Lizars. WH Lizars series of Game Birds included some of the most exquisitely engraved and coloured miniature portraits ever to be done of birds.

Page size is 17 x 10cm (6.6.x 4 inches). Mounted in antique white colour rag matt conservation board & covered in cellophane for protection/presentation, the external measurement for framing is 28 x 22cm (11 x 8.6 inches)