Date of Printing: 1785 • Medium: Copperplate Engraving (black and white) • Subject Category: Natural History - Birds • Signed: Plate signed, Lower Left • Period Created: Enlightenment (1700 - 1799) • Plate Size HxWxD cm: 15 x 9.5 • Leaf Paper Size HxW cm: 22 x 13.5 • Style: Original Vintage • Print on Verso: Blank on verso • Condition: Excellent, with minor toning at edges • Edition Type: 1st Edition - Limited • Paper Type: Laid Paper • Framed: Print only
This old antique engraved copperplate print originates from 'Historie naturelle", 1785. Wonderful depiction of two storks in the Enlightenment style. Some slight toning at edges.
From "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere, par M. le Comte du Buffon, Intendant du Jardin du Roi, de l'Académie Francoise et de Celle des Sciences, &c."
Artists and Engravers: Author: Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Engraved by l'Epine after de Jacques de Seve (active 1744-1788).