Antique Print-ARMADILLO-Buffon-1853

Price: € 29,50

Subject: Plate: 'Armadillo'.

Condition: Fine. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling as visible on image. Some remains of binding in margin. This plate has not been washed, bleached , restored in any way.

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

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 17 x 12 cm. The image size is ca. 11 x 7.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.7 x 4.7 inch. The image size is ca. 4.3 x 3 inch.

Part Number: 16509

Location: C21-47

Description: This delicate handcoloured engraving originates from: 'Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, avec la nomenclature linnéenne et la classification de Cuvier, revues sur l'édition in-4 de l'imprimerie royale et annotées par M. Flourens, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences, membre de l'Académie Francaise, Professeur au muséum d'histoire naturelle, etc.. Nouvelle édition ...' Published in Paris by Garnier Freres, 1853-1857.

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.