Natural history prints by
John Frederick Miller
[ Botanicals | Birds | Animals ]
John Frederick Miller. From Cimelia Physica. Figures of Rare and Curious Quadrupeds, Birds, &c. Together With Several of the Most Elegant Plants. Text by George Shaw. London: [1796]. Second edition, 1822. Folio. Engravings with original hand coloring. Full margins. Fine condition.
This is a group of rare and fetching prints from an unusual eighteenth-century compendium of plant and animal life. John Frederick Miller, the fine botanical artist, worked from the latest information about exotic specimens supplied to him by Sir Joseph Banks, one of the key figures in English natural history circles. Miller painted and engraved these botanical and zoological subjects, which in many cases are the first illustrations of the species. The descriptive text is also of historical importance, as it is the work of George Shaw, founder member of the Linnæan Society. These prints are almost unsurpassed for their winning subjects, imaginatively arranged into large scale and beautifully colored compositions. The birds nestled into tree branches, the quadrupeds pictured beside detailed renderings of their heads, along with the most enticing of botanicals, all exhibit the wonderful character and exuberance that make the prints of this period so special.
BOTANICALS:
BIRDS:
- "Loxia, Orix." (Finch) with "Antholyza, Cunonia." $650
- Tab. XII "Larus, albus." (Gull) $550
- Tab. XIV "Struthio, Casuarius." (Cassowary) With two small stains. $550
- Tab. XVI "Columba, coronata." (Dove) $650
- Tab. XVII "Falco Plancus." (Eagle) $650
- Tab. XVIII "Falco, fuscus." (Falcon) $625
- Tab. XXI "Parus, hudsonicus. Fringilla, husdonica. Ernberiza, leucophrys." (Chickadee) $425
- Tab. XXII "Platalea, leucorodia." (Spoonbill) $725
- Tab. XXIV "Cuculus, indicator. Fringilla, cyanocapilla." (Cuckoo) $450
- Tab. XXX "Trochilus, gularis. Fringilla, torquator. Motacilla, gularis." $575
- Tab. XXXIII "Otis, indica." (Bustard) $575
- Tab. XXXV "Ardea, nævia." (Heron) $650
- Tab. XXXVI "Ardea, torquata." (Heron) $550
- Tab. XLI "Coracias versicolor." (Roller or Oriole) $650
- Tab. XLII "Fringilla, brevicola. Fringilla, atrocephala." (Chaffinches) $475
- Tab. XLVII "Trochilus, maculata. Rallus, ecaudata." (Hummingbird & Tahiti Rail) $575
- Tab. LI "Cuculus-crestata." (Cuckoo) $650
- Tab. LII "Promerops-purpureus." (Hoopoe) $675
- Tab. LIII "Oriolus gularis." (Oriole) $675
- Tab. LIV "Picus quadrimaculata." (Woodpecker) $650
- Tab. LV "Hirundo, zonaris." (Swift) $650
- Tab. LVI. "Oriolus trifasciatus; Artonia capensis." (Oriole) $675
- Tab. LVII "Ramphastos, Indicus." (Toucan) $750
- Tab. LVIII "Alceda formosa." (Kingfisher) $750
- Tab. LIX "Columba, rosea." (Dove) $625
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