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Antique Print-PHEASANT SPECIES-SPURBIRD-Schmuzer-Bertuch-1790

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€40.00

V?gel VIII Aves VIII Oiseaux VIII – This print shows birds from China, fig. 1 and 2 the male and female of the Chinese Gold Pheasant, fig. 3 and 4 male and female of the Chinese Silver Pheasant, fig. 5 and 6 the male and female of the Chinese Spurbird, mostly situated on branches.

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SKU: RB-726 Category: Tag:

Description

‘V?gel VIII Aves VIII Oiseaux VIII ‘

Copper engraving, handcoloured on hand laid, verg? paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 26 cm. (7,9 x 10,2 inch). Image size: 20 x 26 cm. (7,9 x 10,2 inch).

This print was published in Friedrich Justin Bertuch’s (1747-1822) Picture book for children (Bilderbuch f?r Kinder) (vol. 1, plate 8), which was published in Weimar between 1790 and 1830 in 12 volumes. The work contains 1185 colored plates, with a total of about 6000 individual engravings, which were mainly made by teachers, students and graduates of the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar.

Made by ‘Jacob Xaver Schmuzer’ after ‘various sources’. Jacob Xaver Schmuzer (1713-1775) was a German copper engraver particularly noted for his illustrating “Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte” (‘Discourse on Natural History’), the monumental multi-volume work of the Bavarian clergyman and naturalist from Augsburg, Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1822).

Condition: good, given age. brownish, stains in the lower corner where the pages has been turned over, brown spots in the right margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANIMAL – BIRD – PHEASANT – CHINA

RBOS-A6-05

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Dimensions 26 × 20 × 1 cm

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