Common starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from British Ornithology, 1812. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. The shadow is caused by a paper bookmark.

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