Peacocks, from the encyclopedic publication: ‘A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature’ by Oliver Goldsmith. This publication attempted to combine a history of the earth with a description of its geographical features and of many of its species.
What often seems amusing to our modern sensibility when observing animal depictions of the 18th and 19th centuries is the portrayal of relatively expressive ‘human-like’ facial expressions. This is also the case with many of these images.
This print is a high-resolution reproduction of the published engraving from an 1820 edition, available on silk-matt Fine Art paper or on the luxurious, matt Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
• Edited in the Xeuxis Studio, image file optimised for the reprint
• High resolution Giclée print, printed with pigment-based inks
• Archival inks, long-term UV resistant
• Sale without frame
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