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Antique Hand-Colored Crested Birds Engraving, Bertuch, c. 1800
€230 ($260, £195, €230)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1800
- Size
- 11.8 × 9.4 in (30 × 24 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Good antique condition with overall age-related toning, scattered foxing and spotting, and minor marks and imperfections consistent with its age. The original hand coloring remains attractive and well preserved. Please study the photographs carefully.Seller Loca
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Artist or book
- Bertuch
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_51465262
Five crested tropical American game birds on one plate, an original hand-colored copper engraving from Friedrich Justin Bertuch's Bilderbuch für Kinder, published in Weimar around 1800. The plate is lettered "Vögel CIV" and "Oiseaux CIV", and each bird is numbered Fig. 1 to Fig. 5, standing on its own small patch of grass.
They are curassows and guans, birds of the forests of Central and South America. At the center a blue-breasted bird with a dark back and a pointed crest has a red face and bill. Above it at the left stands a black bird with a curled crest and yellow bill, and at the right a gray-blue bird with a tall white-tipped crest and long blue tail. At the lower right a dark reddish-brown bird has a white-spotted crest and neck, and at the lower left a long-tailed bird with a bare pink throat and iridescent green and red wings. The old description names the genera as Mitu, Crax, Pipile and Penelope, under late eighteenth-century classifications that have since changed.
The coloring is strong in blues, greens, reds and pink, and the plate belongs to Bertuch's long series of natural-history plates for young readers.
