Chinese or ring-necked pheasant – Vintage Print
![Chinese or ring-necked pheasant, [between 1912 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7c/7c7455f20e9d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Chinese or ring-necked pheasant in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chinese or ring-necked pheasant
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Here the subject is a bird painting rather than a scene: this glass negative records a reproduction of a study by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the American painter and ornithologist known for his accurate and lively bird portraits. Fuertes (1874-1927) worked closely with the Cornell ornithology program and illustrated many field guides and natural history books, so his paintings were widely reproduced in the early twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made large numbers of commercial photographs of American and foreign subjects between about 1890 and 1924, copied the work for distribution as postcards and prints. The negative's title pairs a Chinese pheasant with the ring-necked pheasant, a bird that had been introduced across North America and Europe.
| Created / published | [between 1912 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Notes | Photograph of a painting signed Louis Agassiz Fuertes |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 685 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76010 |
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