Fine Rare Prints

Tegetemeier's Poultry of 1868

Prints by Harrison Weir

CD of 44 high quality digital scans of antique prints of chickens, cocks and game birds

Incredibly detailed scans of classic poultry. Look great printed and framed in your kitchen

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

$49.99 - order #CD009

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Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

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Benefits

• Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

• Study them before investing in the original prints

• Illustrate educational projects

• Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

• Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

• Scans are of the original antique prints

• Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

• Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

• Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

• Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

Information

These scans are of antique prints of prize poultry from W.B. Tegetmeier's "The Poultry Book", illustrated by Harrison Weir who "poured out a lifetime of devotion to English poultry" (Norris, Books on Poultry and Cock-Fighting). The color printing was done by the Leighton Brothers in London. Leighton Brothers are also known as the printers and publishers of the Illustrated London News between 1858 and 1885

Antique prints of poultry are popular to this day and look really great in kitchens.

Date

Published in London in 1868

Print method

The color prints are chromolithographs (i.e. different stone blocks were used to print each color).

The uncolored prints are wood engravings.

Condition

The prints the scans were made from were in very good condition. There is speck or two of foxing on a few of the prints

Size

Each print scanned measured approximately 11" by 7" (28 cm by 18 cm)

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