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Lot 1301
after Mark Catesby (British, 1679-1749), Two Ornithological Prints
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Hand-colored engravings on laid paper, 18th century, to include "Carolina Turtle Dove" and "Blue Grosbeak and Magnolia" from Johann Michael Seligmann's Sammlung Verschiedener Auslaendisher und Seltener Vogel (Collection of Various Foreign and Little-Known Birds): Nuremberg, 1749-1776, by Seligmann (German, 1720-1762), housed in uniform polychrome wood framing.

Platemarks 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (each approximately); DOA 17 1/2 x 14 in.

Private Collection, NC

With strong, bright hand coloring.

Good estate condition; few foxing marks; not examined out of frames.

$400 - 600