Etchings of Parrots
Giuseppe Vanni
1776
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A group of hand-colored zoological etchings of parrots.
Manetti was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the treatise on birds, Ornithologia Methodice Digesta or Storia Naturale Degli Uccelli (1776) which has been called ‘one of the finest bird books issued to that date and one of the most sumptuous publications of the eighteenth century in Italy’ (Christine Jackson, Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World).
Literature
Fine Bird Books (1990), p.92;
Nissen Zoologische Buchillustration, IVB 588;
Zimmer, p.241.
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