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Antique Bird Egg Study Iby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Antique Bird Egg Study IIby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Antique Bird Egg Study IIIby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Antique Bird Egg Study IVby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Antique Bird Egg Study Vby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
Antique Bird Egg Study VIby Henry Seebohm
22" x 32" Framed Artwork Frame
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Henry Seebohm (Born July 12, 1832) was an English amateur oologist, ornithologist, traveler, and steel manufacturer. He became interested in natural history at school and continued to spend his spare time studying birds on his journeys. Seebohm was among the first European ornithologists to accept the American trinomial system to classify sub-species. He was the son of Benjamin Seebohm. His mother Estther Wheeler was a granddaughter of William Tuke. The family had moved from Bad Pyrmont in Germany to England. The family was active in the Society of Friends and Seebohm schooled within the community in York. Seebohm was the author of A History of British Birds, a book that had accurate and highly detailed lithographs of bird eggs. His other publications included A Monograph of the Turdidae, The Birds of the Japanese Empire, and The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae. Seebohm first worked in a grocery as an assistant. He then moved to Sheffield where he became a steel manufacturer before he started his work in natural history. On 19 January 1859, Seebohm married Maria, daughter of a merchant in Manchester, George John Healey. He travelled widely visiting Scandinavia, Greece, South Africa, and Turkey. His expeditions included a visit to Heligoland along with John Alexander Harvie-Brown, as well as the lower Pechora River in 1875. His journeys to Siberia’s Yenisey tundra were described in the books Siberia in Europe and Siberia in Asia. The two books were later combined and published posthumously in 1901 under the title The Birds of Siberia. Framed Henry Seebohm art are available in many art collections worldwide.