Antique Print-BLUE JAY-EURASIAN-CYANOCITTA CRISTATA-Pardinel-Buffon-Travies-1853

Medium: Steel engraving withvoriginal old hand colouring, heightened with a shiny substance on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 17 x 26.5 cm (6.69 x 10.43 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Some foxing or browning near edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BLUE JAY-EURASIAN-CYANOCITTA CRISTATA | PCO-C15-05

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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.

Biography artist: 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 engraving is by Pardinel 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.