VTG Rose Breasted Grosbeak by Roger Tory and 50 similar items

Vintage hand signed 1978 original lithograph by listed American artist Roger Tory Peterson titled Rose Breasted Grosbeak. Great vintage condition with bright colors. This is print 25 of 950. The lithograph is 17? x 22? .The photos are a good representation of the condition of this lithograph. This wonderful lithograph will make a great addition to your collection! During the month of May, well after the robins have started their families, the scarlet tanager and the rose-breasted grosbeak arrive in the oak woods that surround my Connecticut garden. The tanager sings its abrupt phrases like a robin with a sore throat, but the grosbeak gives a more fluid presentation - like a robin that has taken music lessons. The male rose-breast, midway between a sparrow and a robin in size, is a stunning bird whose beauty is not marred by its oversized beak. The female is quite plain and sparrowlike, resembling a large female purple finch except for the flash of yellow in its wing-pits. Although I have been unable to tempt tanagers into the garden, I found that if I sliced an orange in half and impaled it on a twig the grosbeaks would come. In fact, the blossoms in this composition were from the same flowering crab where I put out the oranges. In the western states and in southwestern Canada the rose-breast is replaced by the black-headed grosbeak. - Roger Tory Peterson Great Condition Hand-Signed by Roger Tory Peterson Paper Lithograph Edition Size: 950 Image Size: 17 X 14