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Item Specifics
Subject: Wildlife & Natural History
Artist / Photographer: Richard Kearton, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S.
Title: Young Song Thrushes
Features: Hand-Signed by Photographer, Original Glazed Period Frame
Originality: Vintage Original
Format: Framed Photographic Print
Item Description
Title: Young Song Thrushes – Original Framed Vintage Print
Photographer / Naturalist: Richard Kearton, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S. (Hand-Signed)
Framing: Original glazed vintage black wooden display frame with hanging cord
Provenance: Direct from the Kearton Family Archive
Overview & Historical Importance
An exceptional, framed vintage wildlife print showing three fledgling Song Thrushes perched along a hawthorn branch, captured by pioneer natural history photographer Richard Kearton.
Together with his brother Cherry Kearton, Richard revolutionised wildlife photography at the turn of the 20th century, developing the first photographic hides and publishing the world's first book illustrated entirely with wild animal photographs.
Condition Report
Print Quality: Excellent tonal range and sharp image detail. Very clean image area with light, uniform age-toning to the margin stock consistent with age.
Frame & Backing: Housed in its original vintage thin black wooden frame with front glass panel and period dark cloth-paper backing sheet complete with hanging ring cord. Frame shows light handling wear consistent with its era. Ready to display.
