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Authentic, Beautifully Richly Colored, Copper Engraving of Cockatoos '1792'
$470 (£355, €420)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1792
- Size
- 11.6 × 8.1 in (29.5 × 20.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Wear consistent with age and use.
- Period
- 18th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_29103972
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.
