Flamingo by Catesby Mark (1 results)

unbound. Condition: very good. Bird print. Etching with original hand coloring. Page measures 17" x 10", image measures 12" x 8 7/8". Beautiful and unusual life sized beak of a flamingo set against a background of Gorgonian coral. Minor wear and aging to edges. Minor stain in lower left. Mark Catesby (1683-1749), born in England, was America's first naturalist/illustrator. He was the first to comprehensively illustrate natural history delineating the American flora and fauna. Johann Michael Seligmann (1720%u20131762) was a German artist and engraver best known for his ornithological artwork (Collection of various foreign and rare birds) circa 1751, which included plates based on the works of Mark Catesby and George Edwards.…