Pasquier, R.F.; Farrand, J. - Masterpieces of Bird Art: 700 years of Ornithological Illustration

Abbeville Press 1991 261, col illus. . HB. Large 4to (40x288mm), orig. cloth, gt. Minor bump to top corner of front board. Vg in d/w.. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. This splendid history of the best in bird illustration chronicles an artistic tradition dating from the thirteenth century to the present day. The authors, two well-known ornithologists, have evaluated the scientific accuracy and historical significance of bird art as well as its beauty. This lavishly illustrated survey presents the work of some sixty-five artists in 269 pictures (200 full colour), ranging from the wood engravings of Thomas Bewick to the magnificent and expressive aquatints of John James Audubon, to the evocative realism of twentieth-century paintings by such masters as Bruno Liljefors and George Miksch Sutton.. [9781558591349]

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