Date of Printing: 1770 • Medium: Copperplate Engraving (hand colored) • Subject Category: Natural History - Birds• Signed: Plate signed, Lower Right • Period Created: Enlightenment (1700 - 1799)• Plate Size HxWxD cm: 25.5 x 17 • Leaf Paper Size HxW cm: 42 x 25.5 • Style: FOLIO Original Vintage • Print on Verso: Blank on verso • Condition: Excellent• Edition Type: 1st Edition - Limited • Paper Type: Laid Paper, Watermarked• Framed: Print only
LE FRANCOLINI BRUN - TACHETE (Urogallus Minor Americanus) - The Small Brown American Capercaillie
A beautifully hand coloured, antique copper engraving by George Edwards, for Jean Michel Seligmann and Mark Catesby's
"Recueil de Divers Oiseaux Etrangers et Peu Communs Qui se Trouvent dans Les Ouvrages de Messieurs Edwards et Catesby"
Published, Nuremberg by The Heirs of Seligmann between 1755 - 1772. Credited and titled within the plate.
Beautifully hand coloured, on hand laid paper and in fine, virtually unmarked condition .
Condition is EXCELLENT. Only very slightest of toning at edge of top and right side. A crisp, bright impression and a rarity!
A GENUINE ANTIQUE PRINT GUARANTEED OVER 240 YEARS OLD
George Edwards (1694 – 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".
Edwards was born at Stratford, Essex. In his early years he travelled extensively through mainland Europe, studying natural history, and gained a noted reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds.