Sarcelle, male. Sarcelle femelle. Male teal. Female Teal. Ornithologia, sive synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines.

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Sarcelle, male. Sarcelle, femelle. Male Teal. Female Teal. An original hand-coloured copper plate engraving. Drawn and engraved by Francois-Nicolas Martinet (1760-1800). From The Ornithologia, sive synopsis methodica by Mathurin Jaques Brisson of 1760. Signed in the plate lower left. Size of sheet: 14" x 10". Size of image: 11.25" x 9.50". Francois-Nicolas Martinet was a French engineer, engraver and naturalist. He engraved plates for numerous works on natural history but he specialized in ornithology. Most notable are these produced for The Ornithologia. Condition: Fine. The engraving is exceptionally clean and fresh. It is marked in two places where it would have been folded in the book. There is a faint shadow of the main image on the surround to the left of the image. There is one small dark spot, a dot, at the top left of the image. N° de ref. del artículo 001031

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