Vintage Bird Print, Framed Original c. 1939 Lithograph, Purple Grackle, Artisan Framed Naturalist Art, Nature Lovers shops Home Decor, Wall Art

This recently framed work, featuring this original c. 1939 lithograph, illustrates the well known Common Grackle bird / 'Purple' Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula).

The common grackle was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 'Systema Naturae', as Gracula quiscula. A wonderful illustration by ornithologist and bird artist Allan Brooks, from the National Assoc. of Audubon Societies "Summer Birds of North America'.

Hand-finished Framed Setting:
• Vintage wood frame
• Black matting
• Floral acid free backing paper/dust cover.
• Complete, ready to hang/display.

Approx. dimensions, vertical orientation:
overall w/frame: 7-3/8" W x 9-3/8" H
overall viewing/aperture: 4-1/2" x 6-1/2"
frame profile depth: 1-3/8"

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Allan Cyril Brooks (1869 – 1946) Canadian ornithologist and illustrator. Brooks painting style is more shops impressionist with a greater emphasis on the bird habitat. After his contemporary Louis Agassiz Fuertes' passing in 1927, Brooks was commissioned to complete the illustrations for volume 3 of 'Birds of Massachusetts'.


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