Description:
Pen, black ink and watercolor. 31.5 x 19.5 cm. Mounted on cardboard, in a frame of 47.8 x 38.5 cm.Wear and small redness pickings.
Wonderful natural history drawing of a blackbacked goose : "Aves, Anseris, Lamellirostres" (on the top", and "Anas melanotas, Plectropterus melanotus stev., rostro basi gibbo, compresso, corpore albo, capute colloque nigro maculates, dorso, alis caudaqui nigris" (on the bottom), with title and signature : "Blackbacked Goose, W. Goodall".