Engraved plate with original hand colour, 39 x 31 cms. From the ‘Nederlandsche Vogelen’, the first comprehensive work on the birds of Holland, completed after Nozeman’s death by Martinus Houttuyn and Jan Christian Sepp. Details of feather, head and foot.
Nozeman was a pastor who owned a cabinet of natural history specimens. After Nozeman’s death in 1786 the work was continued by Dr Houttuyn and after his death in 1798 the project was completed to the same high standard by the publisher, Sepp, with the assistance of C.J. Temminck.
