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1. Plyctolophus Galeritus. Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 15 1/8 inches (55.9 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942

2. Spot-backed antshrike

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/4 inches (22.5 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Bird

Creator:: William Swainson, 1789–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 3/8in. (23.2 x 18.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Bearded Titmouse

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 8 1/8 inches (33 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. A Bird

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches (23.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Cock Sparrow

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 9 inches (29.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Falcon: Hen Krestel

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (21 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Jackdaw

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Warbler: Reed Wren

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A European Goldfinch

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/8 inches (21 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Great Blue Turaco

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (21 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Antshrike

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 9 1/2 inches (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 × 13 15/16 inches (48.6 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Owl: Little Owl

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.6 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1852 or 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, laid on dome-shaped gold paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/8 x 13 1/16 inches (21.2 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Goshawk

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 15/16 inches (11.4 × 12.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Emerson Tuttle, B.A. 1914

17. The Nightingale (tail piece)

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 7 5/16 inches (17.8 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Hoopoe on a Branch

Creator:: Workshop of Tulsi Das Nimbark
Date:: 2009
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (23.5 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Holly Shaffer

19. Red-capped Parakeet (female)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 14in. (45.7 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

20. Red-capped Parakeet (female)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 14in. (45.7 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

21. Greater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches (54.3 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

22. Pigeon Parrakeet

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 x 12in. (48.3 x 30.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

23. Abyssinian Parakett

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 14in. (45.7 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

24. Guinea Parrot

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (27.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Phoenix

Creator:: Print made by Edward Julius Detmold, 1883–1957
Date:: 1899
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with colored ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 10 1/8 inches (34.2 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. Plyctolophus Galeritus. Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

2. Spot-backed antshrike

3. A Bird

4. Bearded Titmouse

5. A Bird

6. The Cock Sparrow

7. Falcon: Hen Krestel

8. Jackdaw

9. Warbler: Reed Wren

10. A European Goldfinch

11. Great Blue Turaco

12. Antshrike

13. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

14. Owl: Little Owl

15. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

16. The Goshawk

17. The Nightingale (tail piece)

18. A Hoopoe on a Branch

19. Red-capped Parakeet (female)

20. Red-capped Parakeet (female)

21. Greater Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

22. Pigeon Parrakeet

23. Abyssinian Parakett

24. Guinea Parrot

25. Phoenix