Lot 115960: Sydenham Edwards - Hand-coloured engraving of birds 1820
This beautiful hand-coloured engraving is from Abraham Rees’ Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row 1820.
It is from the Natural History Plates Volume of this work, drawn by Sydenham Edwards and engraved by Milton.
The engraving features a lark, starlings and goatsuckers or nightjars.
Size: 8.25in x 10.6in (21cm x 27cm)
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