Background:

These prints of Wetlands Birds are from Jacob Studer's Birds of North America, one of the best known of the American books on birds of our continent from the second half of the 1800s.  The folio contains beautiful illustrations "drawn and colored from life" by Thomas Jasper.  As described in the preface, the folio represents "upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds, including a popular account of their habitat and characteristics".