Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Oyster-Catcher

Artist John Gould (British, 1804 - 1881)

Date1832-1837

MediumLithograph, hand colored

DimensionsSheet size: 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (36.8 x 54 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Dr. Orrin Lippoff

Object number2012.55.2

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionHaematopus ostralegus (Oyster-Catcher) bird with black head, throat, back, wings, and tail tip, white belly and lower back, and orange beak and feet, standing on a shoreline. Plate 300 from volume IV of "Birds of Europe", London, 1832-1837.