Rare-Antique Print-VARIABLE GOSHAWK-TACHYSPIZA HIOGASTER-Trap-Smit-Schlegel-1863

'VALKVOGELS 15. NISUS CRUENTUS.'This rare original antique print shows the variable goshawk (Tachyspiza hiogaster) with coloration variations and/or sexual dimorphism.Made by P.W.M. Trap after Joseph Smit.Medium: Lithograph with original hand coloring and heightened with gom on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 22.5 x 30.5 cm (8.86 x 12.01 inch). Image size: 15 x 20 cm. (5.91 x 7.87 inch).VARIABLE GOSHAWK-TACHYSPIZA HIOGASTER-BIRD OF PREY-DUTCH INDIES | BOX-BIRDSBACKGROUND INFORMATIONFrom: De vogels van Nederlandsch Indie, H. Schlegel, Leiden, 1863-1866. An archived version is available at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.Reference: DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.14457.Biography engraver: P.W.M. Trap was a 19th-century Dutch printer and lithographer based in Leiden, active in scientific and zoological publications, notably for the Leiden Natural History Museum.Biography artist: Joseph Smit (1836-1929), Dutch zoological illustrator, renowned for his work with Schlegel and others, especially ornithological plates, known for exceptional detail and lifelike rendering. The author Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) was a German Zoologist. He was working for the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden since 1825. Since 1828 he was the conservator. From 1860 until his death he was director. He mostly studied the animals of the Netherlands and its colonial possessions. Condition: very good, given age. Some minor foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.…