Yellow White-Eye, Plate 3 from Birds of Western Africa

A hand-colored engraving of a yellow-green songbird with a pale eye ring perched on a gray branch, its thin dark bill pointed left. Behind it, faint hills, palms and shrubs fade into a pale sky, and the plate label and bird name are printed in the corners.

Artist

William Home Lizars

Date

1837

Medium

Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1920 × 1251 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum