Name: Antique Print-SUNBIRD-HOOPOE-CAPE SUGARBIRD-WALLCREEPER-Soltukow-Oken-1833
SKU: PCO-28742
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Antique Print-SUNBIRD-HOOPOE-CAPE SUGARBIRD-WALLCREEPER-Soltukow-Oken-1833

€75.00

‘PLATE 76. BAUMLAEUFER (..).’

– This original antique print shows various birds; Kolibri/Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris), Blumensauger/Sunbird (Cinnyris metallica), Zuckervogel/Cyan Sunbird (Nectarinia cyanea s. armillata), Ziervogel/Honey-eater (Melithreptus vestiarius), Pinselvogel/Philedon (Philedon caruneulatus), Bauml?ufer/Brown Creeper (Certhia familaris), Baumpicker/Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes guttatus), Mauerspecht/Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), T?pfervogel/Treerunner (Figulus albogularis), Wiedehopf/Hoopoe (Upupa epops), Schweifhopf/Cape Sugarbird (Promerops caffer), Kragenhopf/Scale-breasted Paradise Bird (Epimachus magnificus).

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SKU: PCO-28742 Category: Birds Tag: Birds

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. Minimal foxing/staining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

SUNBIRD-HOOPOE-CAPE SUGARBIRD-WALLCREEPER | PCO-A194-26

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 Soltukow.