Antique bird prints by George Shaw 1800-1819

Zoological Lectures, delivered to the Royal Institution
by George Shaw (1800-1819)
Mrs. Griffith, principal engraver

Original 200-year-old copperplate engravings
Sheet size: approximately 5.5 x 9.25 inches. (see enlargements for any flaws)

George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical practitioner. He became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University and keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum. He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society was a fellow of the Royal Society. He is also well known these days for the colored prints of animals he published in The Naturalist's Miscellany with Mr. Nodder.

Plate 55
Great Scarlet Maccaw
$30

Plate 56
Psittacus Augustus
$25

Plate 58
Great or Common Bird of Paradise

Plate 60
Common Cuckow (Cuckoo)
$20

Plate 61
Red-throated Hummingbird
$25

Plate 63
Great Crowned Pigeon
$25

Plate 64
Mocking Thrush
$20

Plate 65
Ultramarine Ampelis
$20

Plate 66
Coccothraustes or
Crossbill
$20

Plate 68
Argus Pheasant
$20

Plate 70
Ostrich
$30
(see enlargement for condition)

Plate 71
Casuarius Australis
Casuarius Galeatus
(Cassowary)
$20

Plate 72
Bustard
$20

Plate 73
New Holland Jabiru
Common Jabiru
$20

Plate 74
Bittern
Stork
$20

Plate 76
Outline of an Ibis
from an Egyptian Obelisk
Egyptian Ibis
$25

Plate 77
Curlew
Guarauna
$20

Plate 78
Variable Jacana
Trumpeter
$20

Plate 80
Turnstone
Long-legged Plover
$20

Plate 84
Great Awk, Patagonian Penguin
$25

Plate 86
Phaeton Aethereus
$15

Plate 50
Skeleton of Turkey
$20

We have many more of Shaw's copperplate engravings (this is all of Shaw's birds we have)
...please see the Natural History page for Shaw's mammals, reptiles, etc.
See also the Shaw/Nodder birds.

The plates below are from an unidentified source (possibly by Count Buffon), but are in the same style and of the same approximate age as those above (about 200 years old). The sheet size is about 5 x 8.5 inches.