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Harmonia Ruralis
(1845)

James Bolton (1733-1799)

Hand-coloured engraved plates over 175 years old

Sheet size: approximately 9 x 12 inches.

We are delighted to offer these hand colored engravings from the 1845 edition of James Bolton’s Harmonia Ruralis; Or, An Essay Towards a Natural History of British Song Birds: Illustrated with Figures, the Size of Life, of the Birds, Male and Female, in Their Most Natural Attitudes; Their Nests and Eggs, Food, Favorite Plants, shrubs, Trees &c. &c. Faithfully drawn, Engraved, and colored after Nature.

James Bolton (1733-1799) was an English painter, illustrator & naturalist who lived around Halifax for his entire life. He was an avid student of flora & fauna of the field and published a book on ferns & another on fungi before creating what is surely his masterpiece, the Harmonia Ruralis. The original drawings for this work were on vellum & two are still in the collection of the Earl of Derby. 

References include: Nissen IVB 115; Zimmer p. 64; Wood p. 247; Mengel 310


 

Bullfinch or Nope
Bullfinch or Nope

$179.95

Hedge Sparrow
Hedge Sparrow

Greenfinch
Greenfinch

$179.95

Greenfinch Nest & Eggs
Greenfinch Nest & Eggs

$125

Common Bunting
Common Bunting

(see paper loss)


Grasshopper Lark

$179.95
(fox mark in margin)

Missel bird
Missel bird

Missel bird Nest & Eggs
Missel bird Nest & Eggs

Starling
Starling

$179.95
(original watercolour smears
in top margin)

Starling Nest & Eggs
Starling Nest & Eggs

Blackbird or Ouzle
Blackbird or Ouzle

(original watercolour smear)

King or Heath Ouzle
King or Heath Ouzle

Blackcap
Blackcap

$179.95

Blackbird Nest & Eggs
Blackbird Nest


Song Thrush or Throstle

$179.95
(original watercolour smears)

Grey Wagtail
Grey Wagtail

Siskin or Aberdavine
Siskin or Aberdavine

Siskin Eggs in Shell
Siskin Eggs in Shell

$85

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