Alpine Swift

Coastal Sea bird

Published 1870

by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .

Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870.

Name of the bird printed in plate.

This work is part of a print suite realized for F. O. Morris after drawings by Richard Alington, to create an inventory of British Birds.

Good condition, please see photos for very minor signs of age

Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) was a British watercolor artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscape. He worked for the printer Benjamin Fawcett, where he had been an apprentice from an early age. He collaborated on a large number of works with Rev. Francis Orpen Morris who wrote the text

Antique Bird Print

From A History of British Birds

Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) Francis Orpen Morris ( 1810-1893) Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917)

original old coloured wood engraving

by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917)

Page size approx 15.4 x 25.5cm

Antique original hand coloured Print not a modern reproduction

Published in book form by Groombridge and Sons c. 1863-1867 in London

Publication Date C1863

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