Le Perroquet Verd de Bresil (Green Parrot of Brazil)

Date1773

Publisher Johann Michael Seligmann 1720-1762

After work by George Edwards 1694 - 1773

Engraver Johann Sebastian Leitner 1715 - 1795

OriginEurope, Germany, Nuremberg

MediumBlack and white line engraving and etching with period color

DimensionsOH: 13 7/8" x OW: 10 7/8"

Credit LineGift of Barnett Shepherd

Object number2018-269,11

DescriptionUpper margin reads: "Der Brasilianische gruue Bavagen/ Tab. LXI"
Lower margin reads: "G. Edwards ad vi. delin./ J.M. Seligmann excudit./ Cum Priv. Sac. Caes, Majestatis./ Joh. Sebst. Leitner sculps./ Psittacus virdidis Brasiliensis./ N.o 56. VI.ter Theil./ Le Perroquet Verd du Bresil"Label TextFrom French edition. This was published in "Recuil de Divers Oiseaux..." Volume 6, in Nuremberg, Chez Les Heritiers de Seligmann, 1773 using the same plates.

The plate was originally published in ‘Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel’ which comprises Georg Leonhard Huth's German translation of George Edwards's “A Natural History of Birds” (1743-51) and “Gleanings of Natural History” (1758-64), and Mark Catesby's ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.’ProvenanceBefore 2007, Summit Antique Center (Summit, NJ); 2007, purchased by Barnett Shepherd (Staten Island, NY); 2018-present, given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).