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Antique Print-NUTHATCH-KINGFISHER-WRYNECK-WOODPECKER-Schillinger-Oken-1833

Print

€95.00

‘PLATE 77. SPECHTE (..).’

– This original antique print shows various birds; 1. Kleiber/European Nuthatch (Sitta europaea), 2. Steigschnabel/Plain Xenops (Xenops hoffmannseggii), 3. Kletterdrossel/Common Thornbird (Anabates rufifrons), 4. Wendehals/Wryneck (Jynx torquilla), 5. Schwarzspecht/Great Black Woodpecker (Picus martius), 6. Ackerspecht/Ground Woodpecker (Pinus arator), 7. Immenvogel/European Bee-eater (Merops abiaster), 8. Goldvogel/White-throated Jacamar (Galbula viridis), 9. Eisvogel/Kingfisher (Alcedo ispida).

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SKU: PCO-28743 Category: Tag:

Description

Medium: Lithograph with original old hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 23 x 30 cm. (9.06 x 11.81 inch).

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

NUTHATCH-KINGFISHER-WRYNECK-WOODPECKER | PCO-A194-27

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This old antique print originates from: ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s allgemeiner Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’, published by Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung in Stuttgart, Germany 1833 ? 1841.

Biography artist: Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), was a German transcendental naturalist, philosopher & physician. Born Okenfuss, the son of a farmer, he simplified his name to Oken while at medical school in Freiburg, Bavaria. Oken was a prolific & vocal writer, lecturer and theorist, publishing many philosophical treatises during his life. His masterpiece and lasting legacy to the world is the 13-volume ‘Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’ (Natural History for all Social Ranks), first published between 1833 and 1841. This plate engraved by Schillinger.

Additional information

Dimensions 34 × 27 × 1 cm

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