Lot 289: NICOLAS ROBERTS (1614-1685)

DETAILED DESCRIPTION with later hand coloring, by L. C. Desnos, Paris, 1773-1774; from Collection d'oiseaux les plus rares gravés et dessinés d'après nature... l'histoire naturelle et raisonnée des différents oiseaux qui habitent le globe... traduite du Latin de Jonston... de laquelle on a fait précéder l'Histoire particulière des oiseaux de la Ménagerie du Roi. .. . . CATALOGUE NOTE These finely executed prints of birds are after Niocolas Robert, a French watercolorist, draftsman and printmaker, from an 18th century reissue of two 17th century natural history works. The reissue combined Robert's prints of the birds of the royal menagerie at Versailles, originally published in 1676, with a French edition of John Jonston's 1650 work on birds, taken from Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium.

<p>sheet 12 1/2 by 20in. (31.6cm by 50.6cm), framed 20 by 16 3/4 in. (50.6cm by 42.3cm)</p>