Date of Printing: 1758 • Medium: Copperplate Engraving (hand colored) • Subject Category: Natural History - Mammals • Signed: Plate signed, Lower Left • Period Created: Enlightenment (1700 - 1799) • Plate Size HxWxD cm: 20.5 x 16.5 • Leaf Paper Size HxW cm: 25.5 x 20 • Style: FOLIO Original Vintage • Print on Verso: Blank on verso • Condition: Excellent, with minor foxing • Edition Type: 1st Edition - Limited • Paper Type: Laid Paper • Framed: Print only
L' Élan - The Moose; beautiful hand colored engraving from the French book "Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la Description du Cabinet du Roy" by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788); Engraved by C. Baquoy after De Seve
Tome VII (Volume 7), Plate LXXX, Page 318 - Publisher: Imprimerie royale, Paris
Engraver: Tardieu
Designer Artist: De Seve, Jacques E. (French, fl. 1742 - 1788)