Description: Swift, parrots, parakeets. Born in 1731, Martinet was trained as an engineer and draftsman. Engraving was initially a secondary profession, but its popularity led him to make it his main activity. He probably died in the late 1790s (sources disagree on the year of his death). One of his sons, Aaron Martinet, established himself as a print dealer in Paris. Very quickly, he engraved the illustrations of birds for the works of the most influential French ornithologists of the XVIII th Century, He collaborated in particular with thenatural history of birds de Buffon, engraving 1,008 illustrations. Pl 85. copper engraving colored in the 18th century. Around 1770. Dim of the sheet 30.5 X 22.5 cm. Copper 25.5 X 21 cm. Swift, parrots, parakeets.Availablity: in stock Swift, parrots, parakeets. Born in 1731, Martinet was trained as an engineer and draftsman. Engraving was initially a secondary profession, but its popularity led him to make it his main activity. He probably died in the late 1790s (sources disagree on the year of his death). One of his sons, Aaron Martinet, established himself as a print dealer in Paris. Very quickly, he engraved the illustrations of birds for the works of the most influential French ornithologists of the XVIII th Century, He collaborated in particular with thenatural history of birds de Buffon, engraving 1,008 illustrations. Pl 85. copper engraving colored in the 18th century. Around 1770. Dim of the sheet 30.5 X 22.5 cm. Copper 25.5 X 21 cm. Swift, parrots, parakeets. Availablity: in stock
Price: 380.48 USD
Location: Paris
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