German ornithologist in his study, 18th century. Comparing a stuffed specimen with an illustration in a book. Taxidermy mounts of eagles, owls, parrots, in a cabinet of curiosities. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini's Herrn von Buffons Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Buffon's Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1772.

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