Antique Print of Various Birds by Brodtmann (1824)

Description: Early stone lithograph depicting various birds. Included are the scarlet macaw, the Carolina parrakeet, tinkerbird species and the hyacinth macaw. 

Artists and Engravers: Karl Joseph/Ioseph Brodtmann (3 February 1787 – 14 May 1862) was an accomplished Swiss artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller who worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. He produced his lithographs in the post-Linnaean "'Age of Enlightenment". Natural history specimens were depicted in hand-coloured sets for the use of biologists and the aristocracy, the latter being not only great patrons of the arts and sciences, but including many who were actively interested in fauna and flora. The artists respected scientific accuracy and often displayed a remarkable sense of aesthetics.