Estienne le Monnier | An album of ornithological drawings, "Recueil de divers oyseaux", 1734
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Estienne le Monnier
An album of ornithological drawings, “Recueil de divers oyseaux… A Londres MDXXXXXIV”, English, 1734
Folio (495 x 330mm.; mounted drawings typically 260 x 210mm.), 2 decorative titles in watercolour, 45 fine watercolour and gouache drawings of birds mounted on later paper, a remboitage in contemporary mottled calf with central French royal arms gilt, later labels on spine
Highly attractive ornithological drawings. Little is known of the artist, and he does not appear in Christine Jackson's Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World.
LITERATURE:
C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, engraved bookplate
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