Duck, goose and swan prints
Ducks, geese and swans by John James Audubon and John Gould, from Audubon’s Mallard and Trumpeter Swan to Gould’s Mute Swan, and a few from Cornelius Nozeman’s Nederlandsche Vogelen. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, limited to 250.
Mute Swan
$185
Mandarin Duck
$185
Grey Lag Goose
$185
Bean-Goose
$185
Pink-footed Goose
$185
White-fronted Goose
$185
Bernicle Goose
$185
Red-breasted Goose
$185
Brent Goose
$185
Bewick’s Swan
$185
Widgeon
$185
Shoveller Duck
$185
Teal
$185
Gadwall
$185
Pochard
$185
Red-crested Duck
$185
Tufted Duck
$185
Scaup Duck
$185
Steller’s Duck
$185
Eider Duck
$185
King Duck
$185
Scoter
$185
Velvet Scoter
$185
Surf Scoter
$185
Golden-eye
$185
Harlequin Duck
$185
Long-tailed Duck
$185
Merganser
$185
Hooded Merganser
$185
About duck, goose and swan prints
Audubon’s waterfowl are the large sheets here. The Trumpeter Swan of plate 406 curves its neck down to the water and fills the width of the page, and the Canada Goose, the Canvas-backed Duck and the Hooded Merganser are all drawn at life size. One plate shows a bird that no longer exists: the Pied Duck of plate 332, now called the Labrador Duck, gone by the 1870s and one of the birds that exist only in Audubon’s book.
John Gould’s geese, swans and ducks come from the fifth volume of The Birds of Great Britain, the Natatores, or swimming birds. Many of his species are in Audubon too, among them the Eider, the Harlequin Duck and the King Duck, so an American and a British plate can hang side by side. The oldest plates are Dutch: Nederlandsche Vogelen shows the Wilde Eend, the mallard, with drake and duck on separate plates. Gould’s Mandarin Duck is from The Birds of Asia.