Stock No: 16102

A set of six ornithological copper engravings, depicting five birds drawn and painted by Peter Brown, recorded from specimens collected during Captain Cook's voyages with Joseph Banks. In his publication, Peter Brown asserted that these birds hadn't been recorded before, so these were the first commercially available depictions and descriptions of these birds.
Peter Brown was a leading zoological artist of his day but the ornithologist George Edwards was also a prominent figure in eighteenth-centruy Britain, and this set includes one engraving by him, of a Great Bustard. The set is a beautiful and fascinating record of the great discoveries of their age.

Peter Brown, published by B White, 1775, George Edwards, published c. 1751. Copper-engravings, original hand colour.

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