The Redbreast (Erythaca Rubecula)

Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn) (1823-1909),

1862

“The upper figure in the plate represents the adult Robin; ther lower figure the bird in its first summer. Both figures are from life”

Plate 12, Birds Drawn from Nature (Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Harvard University Library)

The artist's initials appear in lower right corner

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