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Das purpurfarbe Wasserhun

Porphyrio

Johann Michael Seligmann

From Edwards - Sammlung Verschiedener Ausländischer und Seltener Vogel

The print

Technique: Facsimile giclée
Sheet: 9¾ × 15¾ in, original size
Paper: White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink: Archival ink
Edition: Limited to 250 prints

$165

Limited edition of 250

€150 incl. VAT in the EU

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Reproduced from an original copy of Edwards - Sammlung Verschiedener Ausländischer und Seltener Vogel.

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A facsimile of the original sheet

Photographed from an original copy of Edwards - Sammlung Verschiedener Ausländischer und Seltener Vogel.
Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.

How your print is made

Das purpurfarbe Wasserhun shown in a black and gold frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Das purpurfarbe Wasserhun shown in a dark wood frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

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About this plate

Das purpurfarbe Wasserhun (Porphyrio) is from Edwards - Sammlung Verschiedener Ausländischer und Seltener Vogel by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749–1776). This facsimile is made from the original and printed at the size of the original sheet, 9¾ × 15¾ in (25 × 40 cm).

About the original

Between 1749 and 1776 the Nuremberg engraver and publisher Johann Michael Seligmann (1720-1762) issued Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel, nine volumes that brought the birds of the English naturalists Mark Catesby (1683-1749) and George Edwards (1694-1773) to German readers, in re-engraved, hand-coloured copper plates; to some he added plants or landscapes.

These plates follow Edwards’s A Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History; among them is his dodo, shown beside a guinea pig.

Title: Edwards - Sammlung Verschiedener Ausländischer und Seltener Vogel
Published: 1749-1776
In our collection: 34 prints