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Original Brightly Hand-Colored Copper Engraving of Four Ducks '1792'
£290 ($380, €340)
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)
- Technique
- Hand-Crafted, Painted, Varnished
- Condition
- Good. Outside on the margins are a few small dark stains.
- Period
- 18th century
- Section
- Birds
- Reference
- f_29039462
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.
