Singing Birds, from the encyclopedic publication ‘A History of 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.
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– Print file digitally retouched and optimized in our studio*
– Printed with love and attention to detail in Berlin
– Archival print, guaranteed 75 years fade-resistant
– Sale without frame
– More details and information about the papers can be found here: ‘About our prints‘
* In the case of historical originals, we retouch rough imperfections. However, we have also deliberately leave some traces of age of the original work where we feel this is appropriate.
