Hand-coloured woodcut print, c.1870
Alexander Francis Lyndon (British -1836 - 1917)
Wooden frame mat board
Finely hand-coloured Victorian woodcut of the Purple Martin, the largest North American swallow. Produced around 1870 by British artist Alexander Francis Lydon, whose illustrations were widely published in 19th-century natural history volumes. This print forms a striking pair with Lydon’s Passenger Pigeon
Size: 17 × 11cm
Frame: 36 × 28cm
Quality note: Some slight foxing to the background of print.
Hand-coloured woodcut print, c.1870
Alexander Francis Lyndon (British -1836 - 1917)
Wooden frame mat board
Finely hand-coloured Victorian woodcut of the Purple Martin, the largest North American swallow. Produced around 1870 by British artist Alexander Francis Lydon, whose illustrations were widely published in 19th-century natural history volumes. This print forms a striking pair with Lydon’s Passenger Pigeon
Size: 17 × 11cm
Frame: 36 × 28cm
Quality note: Some slight foxing to the background of print.
