Gould Lesser Kestril (kestrel) Hand-Colored Plate Chromolithographic plate

Chromolithographic plate

with his name stamp signature on the front wrapper

each with descriptive text leaves

the Ordos Plateau

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Gould Lesser Kestril (kestrel) Hand-Colored Plate Chromolithographic plateHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 14. 5 inches wide by 21 inches long. From: Gould, J., The Birds of Europe, 1832 1837, plate number 27. Image is of a Lesser Kestril or kestrel, Falco tinnunculus. The plate is accompanied by one page of text describing the lesser kestrel. Gould's The Birds of Europe documented native Europe birds to the same artistic standards that had been previously applied to foreign birds. Publisher Richard and John