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Cornelis Nozeman and Jan Christiaan SeppEurasian Teal Duck: An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving "Anas Crecca"1770
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This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Anas Crecca" (Eurasian Teal) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlandsche Vogelen', engraved by Christiaan Sepp or his son Jan Christiaan Sepp, published in Amsterdam in 1770. This engraving depicts a female Eurasian Teal duck standing on guard next to her nest containing four eggs. She appears to have been alerted to a possible danger behind her. The Anas crecca or Eurasian teal is also known as the common teal or Eurasian green-winged teal and sometimes simply a teal because of it is commonly a blue-green (teal) color.
The engraving is printed on thick, watermarked, laid, chain-link paper with wide margins. It is in excellent condition.
The work took nearly 60 years to complete all five volumes. The first two volumes were created by Nozeman and Sepp and after they died by Dr. Martinus Houttuyn & C. J. Temminck worked on subsequent volumes, volume V completed in 1829. The work is very scarce with one of the last complete sets selling for $92,000 at auction.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786) was a Dutch minister and an ornithologist. Nozeman and Christiaan Sepp along with his son Jan Christiaan Sepp collaborated on the creation of the 1st two volumes of this ambitious work, with Nozeman writing the text and the Sepps creating the engravings. Martinus Houttuyn continued the work for the third volume, which was published in 1797. one year before he died. The fourth volume was published anonymously in 1809. The project was completed in 1829 with the publication of a fifth volume by Jan Sepp, the son of Jan Christiaan and grandson of Christiaan Sepp. The project involved three generations of Sepp family artists over the sixty years it took to complete the work. At the time of the final publication it was the costliest book ever published.
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- Creation Year:1770
- Dimensions:Height: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)Width: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)
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- Period:1770-1779
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- Gallery Location:Alamo, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: # 4469 1stDibs: LU117327220242
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