Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 20

Set of 18 Hand Coloured Bird Engravings

$12,600per set
£9,535.48per set
€10,952per set
CA$17,917.81per set
A$19,426.59per set
CHF 10,237.77per set
MX$236,246.35per set
NOK 127,374.18per set
SEK 120,453.26per set
DKK 81,762.82per set

About the Item

Set of 18 hand coloured bird engravings. Antique hand coloured bird engravings by Jacques de Seve, commissioned by George-Louis Leclrec, Comtes de Buffon for Histoire Naturelle et Particuliere Avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi, consisting of: La Cresserelle Le Traine de Buisson ou Fauvette D’Hiver La Fauvette Le Rouge Gorge L’Ortolan La Fauvette À Tete e Le Bec Figue La Gorge Bleu Le Proyer Le Grand Béfroi Le Troglodyte e Le Roitelet Le Bluet L’Emerillon La Farlouse ou L’Alouette de Pres Le Coliou Le Petit Tangara Le Manakin e Le Manakin Hupé Le Bruant de France La Fauvette des Alpes. All in vintage frames and mats. France, 18th Century. Dimensions: 20.75" H x 14.75" W x .5" D; sight is 8" x 6.5
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20.75 in (52.71 cm)Width: 14.75 in (37.47 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 18
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Paper,Engraved
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    18th Century
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1084243756812

More From This Seller

View All
A. Licola, Italian Dove Sketches
Located in New York, NY
A. Licola. Italian Dove Sketches. Charming annotated studies of Italian doves/pigeons newly framed. Italy, 20th Century. Dimensions: 13.5" W x 16.5" H x 1'D; sight:  7.5" x 10.5"
Category

20th Century Italian Drawings

Materials

Paper

Pair Framed Antique Engravings of Ottoman Personages
Located in New York, NY
Pair framed antique engravings of ottoman personages. Set of 12 hand coloured antique engravings of 36 diverse personages of Ottoman and Oriental background spectacularly attired in ...
Category

Antique Early 18th Century European Prints

Materials

Paper

Set of Four Selby Duck Engravings
By P J Selby
Located in New York, NY
Set of four Selby duck engravings. Original engravings from Selby’s British Ornithology illustrations of “Water Birds” by Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist, botanist and ill...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century English Prints

Materials

Paper

Wood Snipe Hunting Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Wood snipe hunting engraving. Antique c. 1790 French engraving of G. Moreland wood snipe hunt “Chase Aux Becassines” engraved by C. Catton in antiq...
Category

Antique 18th Century Prints

Materials

Velvet, Paper

Set of Four Regency Era Coloured Engravings by Rowlandson
By Rowlandson and Pugin
Located in New York, NY
Set of four Regency era coloured engravings by Rowlandson. Four framed coloured engravings of Regency London landmarks including the Corn Exchange,...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English Prints

Materials

Paper

Set of Six Elephant Hunting Scene Engravings in Gilt Frames
Located in New York, NY
Set of Six Elephant Hunting Scene Engravings in Gilt Frames. Antique Williamson & Howitt engravings of elephants in varied orientalist hunting scenes and landscapes in elegant corner...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English Prints

Materials

Wood, Paper

You May Also Like

Antique Hand Colored Bird Engravings, circa 1890 (6 individual pieces available)
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5- 3023a hand colored bird engraving. Original engraving matted in a Celidone green, glass and white wood frame. 6 available choice by ph...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Prints

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Hand Colored Bird Engravings, circa 1890s(6individual pieces available)
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5- 3023 Hand Colored Bird Engraving . Original engraving matted in a celidone green, glass and white wood frame. 6 available choice by ph...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Prints

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Six Hand Colored Engravings of Birds in New Frames & Matting. By Martinet.
Located in Washington, DC
Ten hand colored engravings of birds in new frames and matting sold individually. François Nicolas Martinet. Martinet engraved illustrations of birds for books by some of the mo...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Prints

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

18 Antique Bird Hand-Coloured Engravings
Located in New York, NY
Antique Bird Prints Natural History Studies of Parrots and Tropical Birds Hand-colored engravings 23.5 x 30.5 inches each including frame Imagine all 18 on one wall in your study.
Category

Antique 19th Century European Prints

Materials

Paper

Set of 12 19th Century Bird prints
By John Gould
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mr John Gould's tropical framed Bird prints 1955 taken from his limited edition of 1000. The most celebrated British ornithologist of the nineteenth-century John Gould (1804-1881) ...
Category

Antique 19th Century English Victorian Prints

Materials

Paper

Three Antique Hand Colored Engravings of Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Three 18th century hand colored engravings of parrot specimens as depicted by Peter Brown, an artist and naturalist, working in London England. Originally published in 1776 in a foli...
Category

Antique 18th Century English British Colonial Prints

Materials

Paper