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print_265
title
Eagle [screaming] Adult. Aigle [Criard ] Adulte, from "Description de l' Egypte"
maker
Barraband, Jacq.
date
1809
size
49,5 x 38 cm.
technique
Copper plate engraving
condition
As a print; Superb ,strong impression, delicate periodcolouring, superb paper quality. BUT: due to a former [badly executed] framing/mounting :large abrasions oustside the image, at top and sides. Sheet cropped. The Barraband signature lower right-hand side.
signature
Lower right-hand side: Barraband Delt.
colouring
Very fine, strictly period hand-coloring.
description
A large,Male, Adult Eagle on a branch, with it's beak opened. An impressive bird in an impressive pose, from an esteemed master. This print formed part of the Section "Zoologie" Division of the "Oiseaux" by Jules -Cesar Savigny. Plate 1. According to the catalogue ; "Van Diverse Pluimage" [10 centuries of bird books] "From the Description de l'Egypte, only a very limited number of copies were coloured; They where destined for the inner circle of- and for the Bonapartes themselves(!) As such a remarkable copy.[note; photographed through the glass]
ouvre
Taschen; Description de l' Egypte complete reprint in miniature, pp.766.
watermark
Dry Stamp "Description de l'Egypte"
price
1.490
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