Albertus Seba

Engraving of Butterflies and Moths

1734

Original engraving, hand-colored at publication, after the work of Mark Catesby by Johann Michael Seligmann from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel." Nuremberg:...

Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...

Original engraving with later hand-coloring from "Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historia...

Original engraving, hand-colored at the time of publication, after the work of George Edwards from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel" by Johann Michael Seligmann. Tab IX. Le Perroquet...

Original engraving, hand-colored at the time of publication, after the work of George Edwards from "Sammlung verschneider auslandischer und seltener Vogel" by Johann Michael Seligma...

Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "Birds of North America." First Octavo Edition, by John James Audubon. Plate 383. Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, ca. 1839-44.

L’ADMIRAL, Jacob. Group of Six Insects. [Amsterdam, Johannes Sluyter, 1774]. Group of six copper engravings with fine original colour, showing the metamorphosis of butterflies, m...

L’ADMIRAL, Jacob. Group of Six Insects. Johannes Sluyter [Amsterdam 1774]. Group of six insects, copper engraved plates with fine original colour, showing the metamorphosis of bu...

François Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731 - c. 1800) Le Pigeon Ramier de Madacascar (The Wood Pigeon of Madagascar) • 18th century hand colored Copper Plate engraving • Plate No. 192 from : L' Histoir e des oiseaux, peints dans leurs aspects apparents et sensibles, published in 1790 (“The History of the Birds, painted in their appearing and sensitive aspects“) • Glased & ebonized hardwood frame contemporary to the engraving, ca. 43 x 33 cm Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery. A rare pigeon print...

A group of four late eighteenth century hand-coloured engravings depicting monkeys. Set within giltwood frames From “Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis Peintres d’après Natu...

After William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764) Royal Sports PIT TICKET • Engraving by William Dent (British), active from 1783 to 1793 • Inscribed bottom right: Dent sculp • Plate ca. 7.6 x 9.1cm • Image ca. 6.3 x 7.9 cm • Sheet ca. 23.5 x 15 cm Fantastic imagery full of detail and symbolism – For example discover the cast shadow of the dept collector with his truncheon, looming over the winner, whose fast gained riches are being stolen by a thief as we watch. This well know subject was originally created by the famous British artist William Hogarth and then reproduced over time by many contemporary artists as prints of various formats and as paintings. Here we have a rendition engraved by William Dent, who was active from 1783 to 1793 and signed his work in the plate bottom right. I think this impression would date to the late 18th or then to the very early 19th Century. I was told, that these small prints, served as entry tickets to cock fights in Georgian England...

Here are four framed hand colored humming bird species published in the early 20th century representing the original 19th century work of Scottish naturalist, Sir William Jardine. Pr...