Xaverio Manetti (1723-1785): Deux perroquets, gravures colorées à la main, 18e siècle

Work: ca. 34 x 27 cm

Frame: 60,4 x 53 cm

Both hand-coloured copperplate engravings very nicely and qualitatively framed.

The engravings from the book: Xaverio (or Saverio) Manetti, 'Ornithologia methodice digesta, atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornata', alternative titel: 'Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e minate al naturale' ('A natural history of birds'), Florence, In Aedibus Mouchianis,1767-1776, the prints by Violante Vanni and Lorenzo Lorenzi.

Ref.:

- Nissen IVB 588; Fine Birds Books p. 10, Zimmer I, 241.