Antique Print-WHOOPER SWAN-SWAN-Buffon-1853

Steel engraving on vellin type paper. Original old hand colouring, heightened with arabic gum.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 26.5 x 17 cm. The image size is ca. 18 x 13 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 10.4 x 6.7 inch. The image size is ca. 7.1 x 5.1 inch.

Plate: ‘Le Cygne’. (Whooper Swan.)

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.

Artists and Engravers: 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 engravings is by Oudet 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.

Condition: Good. Ligt foxing, creasing and soiling from handling.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-WHOOPER SWAN-SWAN-BUFFON

(PCO) C15-31