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Le Perroquet Verd de Bresil (Green Parrot of Brazil)
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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.’