Extremely and Beautifully Hand-Colored, Copper Engraving of 7 Parakeets '1792'

Reference
BG-13280-22
Date
1792
Category
Engraving
Sheet size
29.5 x 20.5 cm (11.6 x 8.1 in)
Condition
Good
Availability
Available
Price
EUR 450

An authentic, perfect and bright, originally hand-colored, illustration of 7 Parakeets: La Perruche aux ailes noires, La Perruche a collier, La Perruche aux ails variees, La Perruche du Perou and La Perruche a tete grise. It also depicts Le Coulacissi and Le Sosove, Parakeet-like birds.

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 230 from ''Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie', by Panckoucke (Paris), after the famous Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.

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