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Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"

Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux" by Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon|François Nicolas Martinet

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

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