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Framed and on the wall
Frame and rooms are illustrations of how the print could look; the description says what is included.
Handcoloured Copperplate Engraving of a Corella and Cockatoo or Galah, 1838
£160 ($210, €190)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1838
- Size
- 9.8 × 6.9 in (25 × 17.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Artist or book
- Buffon
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_26299522
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838
The long-billed corella or slender-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) is a cockatoo native to Australia.
The rose-breasted cockatoo, best known by its native aboriginal Australian name "galah". Extremely intelligent and enormously fond of humans, this pretty pink bird can readily learn to say many words and do complicated tricks with regular training. This hardy bird can live in some of the more extreme areas of Australia.
It is a small engraving but, showing these birds in a nice frame on the wall, it will look beautiful!
