Antique Bird Print - Grey Petrel, Cinnamon Teal, Bufflehead - France - F2 and printmaking

and printmaking

one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ

Chromolithograph

Développement pour un Båtment de vingt Torsee de face dans œuvre sur seine de profondeur"

The composition depicts the gruesome torture and execution of Saint Bartholomew

Antique Bird Print - Grey Petrel, Cinnamon Teal, Bufflehead - France - F2 and printmakingThis lovely copper engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffons Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire (General and specific natural history). The work was published in Paris, 1825. "Histoire Naturelle" is an extensive multi volume work authored by the French naturalist and scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon ( 1707 1788). The book stands as one of the most important and influential scientific compositions of its era, representing