Original Brightly Hand-Colored Copper Engraving of Four Ducks '1792'

€ 340

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

Date: 1792
Technique: Hand-Crafted, Painted, Varnished
Sheet size: 29.5 × 20.5 cm (11.6 × 8.1 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-13280-12

Condition

Outside on the margins are a few small dark stains.

About this sheet

A perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of four Ducks, 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 37 from ''Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie', by Panckoucke (Paris), after the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.