Les Moineaux de la Chine

Date1768

Engraver Johann Michael Seligmann 1720-1762

After work by George Edwards 1694 - 1773

OriginEurope, Germany, Nuremberg

MediumBlack and white engraving and etching with period color

DimensionsOH: 10 1/8" x OW: 8 1/4"

Credit LineGift of Barnett Shepherd

Object number2018-269,13

DescriptionText along upper margin missing (trimmed)
Lower margin reads: "G. Edwards ad viv. delin./ Cum Privil Sac. Caes. Majest. /J. M Seligmann sculps. et excud./ Passer, Sinelis, Fulvus; mas et foemella./ 85./ Les Moineaux de la Chine."Label TextAfter Johann Michael Seligmann’s death, his heirs published his plates from “Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel” which was the 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.’ This print comes from the French edition which was published in Nuremberg using Seligmann’s plates. This plate is from, Recueil de Divers Oiseaux," Volume II (Nuremberg: Heirs of Seligmann, 1768), Plate 85.ProvenanceBefore 2006, The People’s Store (Lambertville, NJ); 2006, purchased by Barnett Shepherd (Staten Island, NY); 2018-present, given to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).