Bird, Pauquet, Owls, Plate 123, c1830

Date: c1830

Artist: Pauquet

Engraver: Pauquet

Publisher: BGE Delaville, Comte de Lacepede in Paris

Paper Size: 135 x 220mm

Print Size: 95 x 165mm

Condition: good, tonal markings on page edges

Technique: steel engraving

Price: $150

Description: steel engraving, hand coloured

These plates originated from an unknown series of work. I can find no reference to them anywhere

 Provenance:

The Freres Pauquet were renowned 19th Century illustrators of a number of very popular and nowadays expensive works

The Pauquet brothers did engrave birds  in the encyclapeadic, but rare works, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Exotiques first published c1830