This plate with thumbing, particularly in lower margins. The color of the lesser flamingo is brighter than the greater flamingo. This species is the smallest of all flamingos. (Still sometimes listed in the genus Phoeniconaias). Phoenicopterus minor, the lesser flamingo. General age related toning and light staining. Chilean flamingos are slightly smaller than Caribbean flamingos and have gray legs with pink bands at the joints. Nothing really beats seeing a roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, in flight, with its deep reds and pinks. This plate by Wachsmann after Ludwig Meyer.Ĭondition: Fine. No, its not a flamingo, despite the pink feathers. The plates were designed after nature by Bressing, Ludwig Meyer, Muller and Weber, and engraved by Bressing, Guimpel, Meno haas, Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, Ludwig Meyer, Tissot and Wachsmann. Scarse!Artists and Engravers: Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen (Magdeburg 1770-1831 Berlin) was a German reformed theologian and educator. From Shapero Rare Books Limited, Edward Lear, A set of Four Wading Birds Flamingo Spoonbill Common Heron Purple Heron. These plates were designed to accompany 3 volumes of text. Roseate spoonbills have long, thick necks. Pink plumes are about the only thing the two birds have in common though. In fifty pages… Published by Carl Friedrich Amelang, Berlin, 1821. Buy Spoonbill, flamingo and storke, c.1915 (watercolor & bodycolour over pencil on paper) by Archibald Thorburn as fine art print. Its more likely a roseate spoonbill, which resembles a flamingo. Klug, directors of zoological museums, etc., etc. Wilmsens manual of natural history for the youth and their teachers, but also suitable for any other tutorial on natural history.) With an Introduction by Dr. Seuss book with its bright pink feathers, red eye staring out from a partly bald head, and giant spoon-shaped bill. Wilmsens Handbuch der Naturgeschichte f�r die Jugend und ihre Lehrer, aber auch zu jedem anderen Lehrbuche der Naturgeschichte brauchbar.’, (translation: Copper plate collection in particular for F.P. The flamboyant Roseate Spoonbill looks like it came straight out of a Dr. This rare attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: ‘Kupfer-Sammlung besonders zu F. Not as tall or as svelte as the flamingo. Etching and engraving on a vellin type paper. While its not closely related to the flamingo (they come from different families), the two birds do get their characteristic coloring the same way: by feeding. The roseate spoonbill is a large wading bird and just as pink as a flamingo.
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