Through the art of lithography, The illustrations would come to life in the form of water colored lithographs
Category Archives: Water Birds
George Edwards Water Birds-18th Century Engravings
It was decided to publish editions in other languages than English
Nozeman Bird Prints-Hand Colored Engravings!
Cornelius Nozeman bird prints. Nederlandsche Vogelen is known as the finest bird book the Dutch produced on ornithology and the authors were Cornelius Nozeman, Christian Sepp, Janus Sepp and Martin Houttyun. Published in the Netherlands from 1770-1829 and issued in parts, the entire series took an astonishing 59 years to complete. Bring the ocean into …
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Mark Catesby Birds! Beautiful Antique Hand Colored Engravings
It was a laborious craft of all those involved in producing something like these antique Mark Catesby bird engravings.
