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Saverio Manetti, Lorenzo Lorenzi, Violanti Vanni

Etchings of Parrots

Giuseppe Vanni

1776

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Description

A group of hand-colored zoological etchings of parrots.

  • Sold as a set of 4.
  • Saverio Manetti (Italian).
  • Lorenzo Lorenzi (Italian).
  • Violante Vanni (Italian).
  • Florence: Giuseppe Vanni, 1776.
  • Each is presented framed and glazed.

 

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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Minor signs of age and handling.

Dimensions

Height: 19.69 inches / 50 cm
Width: 16.93 inches / 43 cm

Language

Italian

Subject

Zoology, Travel and Exploration, Illustrations, Prints and colour plate, Maps, Botanicals and More

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