2 Antique Prints-DEER SPECIES-Schmuzer-c.1760

‘Plate T.XXXV. and T.XXXIV.’

Copper engraving, handcoloured on hand laid paper.
Sheet size: 18,5 x 10,5 cm. (7,3 x 4,1 inch). Image size: 14,5 x 9 cm. (5,7 x 3,5 inch).

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Made by ‘Jacob Xaver Schmuzer’ after an anonymous artist. 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, one is missing a piece in the left lower corner. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

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RBOS-A6-05