Yellow-Crowned Weaver, Plate 32, Birds of Western Africa

A hand-colored engraving of a yellow weaver bird with a black head and dark green-streaked wings, perched on a bare branch. Its bill is pointed and it faces left against a pale, sketched background of trees and foliage. The printed caption reads Yellow-Crowned Weaver, and the plate number appears at upper right.

Artist

William Home Lizars

Date

1837

Medium

Engraving, brush and watercolor on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1281 × 1920 px

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