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THBJacques Christophe Werner
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About Auction
LiveSep 30, 2022
Tillou Estate Day 2 - Lots 336-707 including American; British; Naturalist Paintings and Sculpture; Mineral & Fossils; Library Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
(Johann Carl Werner, French, 1798-1856)
32 original ornithological preparatory sketches from nature for the publication, Les Oiseaux D'Europe D‚crits Par C.J. Temminck, 1848, Paris: including 14 genre 89 Anas (ducks); 4 genre 90 mergansers, diving ducks, serrated bills; 2 genre 92 cormorants; 2 genre 93 boobys; 5 genre 94 loons; 3 genre 95 guillemot; 1 genre 96 puffin (fratercula); 1 genre 97 razorbill (alcidae), watercolor, each approximately, 11-3/8 x 8-1/2 in.; unframed [Naturalist]
Note: Jacques Christophe Werner was the official painter for the Mus‚um d'Histoire Naturelle au Jardin des Plantes.
See: https://archive.org/details/lesoiseauxdeurop02wern/page/498/mode/2up There is a sheet accompanying this lot that is a listing of other birds that do not relate to this group. It is inscribed at top, ["Oiseaux d'Europe d'out les planchs manquent dans louvrage de Mr. Temminck"] (Birds of Europe from which the boards are missing in the work of Mr. Temminck).
Provenance: The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Condition
some light foxing, examined out of wrap and mounted to trimmed paper sheet (album page) and hinged at top, evidence of erasures and slight changes in composition
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