Red-billed Tropicbird and Ascension Frigatebird, Pl. 3 — Mitteleuropas

A chromolithograph depicting the Red-billed Tropicbird and Ascension Frigatebird, from the rich tradition of Central European ornithological illustration.

Various artists for Naumann's Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas. 1902.

From Zoographia Infinita. The Czech and German ornithological atlases of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent a high point in scientific bird illustration, combining rigorous observation with chromolithographic techniques that captured plumage colour and texture with extraordinary fidelity.

Chromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 39.5 × 28.0 cm. Excellent.