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| 1711 |
(de Hamilton, cont.) The
painting reproduced here (Plate 29) shows the contemporary familiarity with local
diversity. |
| 1724–1755 |
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, a French artist who was initially a portraitist, becomes
a highly productive painter of hunting scenes and other pictures of birds and
mammals after Louis XV has him paint the animals in his menagerie. Like
Desportes, he is involved with tapestry. |
| 1731–1738 |
Eleazar Albin, a German painter and writer known for paintings of insects and
objects of curiosity, produces books through subscription, including a bird book
with hand-colored etchings. Albin’s bird-on-a-branch format with occasional
depictions of backgrounds and food sources becomes widely used. His three-
volume A Natural History of Birds (1731, 1734, 1738) includes 10 North American
species. It is illustrated in color with 306 copper engravings, but owes perhaps
too much to Francis Willughby and John Ray. He also writes A Natural History
of English Songbirds (1737), the first book to include many eggs. Some copies are
hand-colored. |
| 1731, 1743 |
Mark Catesby, an English writer and illustrator financed by Sir Hans Sloane
for travel to North America, publishes The Natural History of Carolina, Florida
and the Bahamas, with about 100 illustrations of birds. This publication set the
standard for American natural history books until Alexander Wilson and John
James Audubon produce theirs. Catesby etches his own illustrations, and he
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representations of birds in their correct habitat with ecologically correct prey, vegetation, etc. |
| 1734–1765 |
Albert Seba, a well-known Amsterdam collector, privately publishes an unorganized catalogue of his collection, Accurate Descriptions of the Most Richly Endowed Treasury of Nature and an Illustration with the Most Skillful Pictures, for
a Universal History of the Physical World. The illustrations are better than the
text, and some unidentified species could represent extinctions. |
| mid-1700s |
François Boucher, who paints The Discreet Messenger (Plate 15), is a mainstream
French rococo painter. He specializes in decorative genre scenes that range
from depictions of animals to religious narratives. |
| mid-1700s |
Pyon Sang-Byok, a Korean painter, is a member of the offcial Painting Bureau. He is valued for his realist works, especially those in which he departs from
the official academic style. |
| 1743-1764 |
George Edwards, an English natural historian, writer, and illustrator, paints
specimens for Sir Hans Sloane, president of the Royal Society, among others,
and eventually writes multivolume bird books illustrating mostly captive exot
ics, many from North America. Linnaeus names 350 birds based on Edwards’s
descriptions. Edwards begins publishing his Natural His-tory of Uncommon
Birds in 1743 and com-pletes the series in 1764; the volumes from 1758 are enti
tled Gleanings of Natural |
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