Name: Antique Print-YELLOW CRESTED COCKATOO-WHITE-PINK-Fournier-Buffon-Travies-1853
SKU: PCO-14729
Availability: OutOfStock

Antique Print-YELLOW CRESTED COCKATOO-WHITE-PINK-Fournier-Buffon-Travies-1853

€135.00

‘1. LE KAKATOES A HUPPE BLANCHE – 2. ID A HUPPE ROUGE – 3. ID A HUPPE JAUNE.’

– This original antique print shows three white cockatoo varieties including the white cockatoo (Cacatua alba) and the yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo.

Out of stock

SKU: PCO-14729 Category: Birds Tag: Birds

Description

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/browning near edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

YELLOW CRESTED COCKATOO-WHITE-PINK | PCO-C15-46

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 Fournier 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.