1774,L'ADMIRAL JACOB MAGNIFICENTLY ILUSTRATED ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINT UXR

Description: Title "Nauwkeurige Waarneemingen Omtrent de Veranderingen Van Veele Insekten of Gekorvene Diertjes " Author/Artist L'Admiral Jacob Date 1774 Sizes 10" 1/4 x 16" 3/4 (26,0 x 43,0 cm) Description Numbered copper engraving. RARE with Beautiful ORIGINAL hand coloring. Extremely Rare. "Nauwkeurige Waarneemingen Omtrent de Veranderingen Van Veele Insekten" By L'Admiral Jacob (1694-1770) Description of the Artist and Work. We are pleased to offer a selection of prints with contemporary hand-coloring from the rare first edition of "Nauwkeurige Waarneemingen Omtrent de Veranderingen Van Veele Insekten", published in Amsterdam in 1774. Jacob L'Admiral, whose father was a painter from an aristocratic Norman family, was a Dutch artist and entomologist who began to study insects at the age of ten years and focused mainly on metamorphosis of butterflies and moths. This monumental work was magnificently illustrated with very high entomological and botanical quality. It shaw life cycles of butterflies and moths depicting eggs, caterpillars, pupa and adults upon their food plants, flowers and fruits in decorative landscapes. The fine plates were all drawn and etched by l'Admiral himself, that produced 33 copper engravings. They were executed in a distinctive continental style thet remind us the plates in Maria Sibylla Merian's great work "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surina-mensium (1705)". After his death in 1770, twentyfive of these copperplates were acquired at auction by Mr. Sluyter, a Dutch publisher. In 1774 Mr. Houttuyn edited the text and pubblished the "Nauwkeurige Waarneemingen": "Houttuyn, who had borrowed eight plates with description from L'Admiral when he was working on the butterflies section for his Linneaus edition, offered the publisher Mr. Sluyter to edit these eight together with the first 25 plates in his hands. In total seventy metamorphoses were depicted on thirty-three hand-coloured plates" (Landwehr 105). Each print in folio edition measure approximately 10” 1/4 by 16” 3/4 (26,0 by 43,0 cm). The condition of these prints is superb, with characteristic strong plate. Wonderful chained hand made paper . There is no foxing on clean paper. There is no descriptive text. Plate I and plate VII bear the engravers signature and plate XII depicts a tulip, making this plates even more desirable. Bibliography Reference: Hagen I, 3; Horn & Schenkling 53; Landwehr, Col. Plates 105; Nissen, ZBI, 2358; Hunt 514; not in Pritzel. Normal 0 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE

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