Birds · 18th century
€ 450
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
Good condition, considering its age. Please study the image carefully.
An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 7 Parakeets:
La Perruche aux ailes noires, La Perruche a collier, La Perruche aux ails variees, La Perruche du Perou and La Perruche a tete grise. It also depicts Le Coulacissi and Le Sosove, Parakeet-like birds.
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 230 from ''Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie', by Panckoucke (Paris), after the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.
