Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"
Medium
Hand-colored etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/8 × 8 1/2 in. (24.4 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 11/16 in. (30.8 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.143
Tags
Birds
About the Artist
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon|François Nicolas Martinet (French|French) · 1708 |1731 –1788 |1809
French, 1708–1788|French, Paris 1731–ca. 1804