Antique Print-ALPINE SWIFT-CRAG MARTIN-Buffon-1853

Steel engraving on vellin type paper. Original old hand colouring, heightened with arabic gum. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 17.5 x 27.7 cm. The image size is ca. 11.1 x 18.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 10.2 inch. The image size is ca. 4.5 x 8.1 inch.

Plate: ‘Le grand Martinet a Ventre blanc – Le Martinet Noir – L’ Hirondelle grise des Rochers’. (Alpine Swift – Common Swift – Crag Martin.) This delicate handcoloured engraving originates from: ‘Oeuvres completes de Buffon, avec la nomenclature Linneene et la classification de Cuvier.’ Published in Paris by Garnier Freres, Libraires, 6 Rue des Saint-Peres, 1853.Artists and Engravers: Author: Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788). French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon’s views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. This handcoloured engravings is by Oudet after Edouard Travies (1809-c1868) The minute precision of Edouard Travies’ work places him with the best of France’s scientific artists. his bird drawings are considered to be some of the finest ever produced.

Condition: Very good. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-ALPINE SWIFT-CRAG MARTIN-BUFFON

(PCO) C15-12