Authentic, Beautifully Richly Colored, Copper Engraving of Cockatoos '1792'

€ 420

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1792
Sheet size: 29.5 × 20.5 cm (11.6 × 8.1 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-13280-23

Condition

Wear consistent with age and use.

About this sheet

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 3 Cockatoos: Le Kakatoes a Huppe Rouge, Le Kakatoes a Huppe Jaune and Le Kakatoes a Huppe Blanche. Also 1 special Parakeet is displayed: L'Arimanon. It lives on French Polynesia, Tahiti.
Drawn on parchment paper (copper engraving). It has a fine shining because of the authenticly applied egg-yolk as varnish. The Artist is Robert Bernard (1792). The illustration is plate number 225 from ''Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie', by Panckoucke (Paris), after the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.