Richly Hand-Colored, Authentic Copper Engraving of 4 Geese (1792)
$380 (£290, €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_29054782
An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 4 Geese 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 29 from ''Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie', by Panckoucke (Paris), after the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.
