A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Falcons & Vultures 01

Falcons & Vultures 01

A mysterious and

The poster is glazed and framed in its original wooden frame

They suffer from minor losses with larger sections of flaking to the lower flanks

The importance of vitriol to alchemy is highlighted in the alchemical motto

A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Falcons & Vultures 01Origin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1857 Height: 10. 75 Width: 7. 25 (each) The octet of early Victorian period engravings, with the finely executed hand colouring to each, being original illustrations published in 1857 in Henry Leonard Meyer's 'Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs', hailing from the middle of the nineteenth century and showing a wonderful and vibrant array of birds, each now framed for