German ornithologist in his study, 18th century. Writing in a book with a quill pen while looking at a stuffed specimen. Taxidermy mounts of birds in a cabinet of curiosities, and library of leather-bound books. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Virliger from Bernhard Christian Otto's Herrn von Buffons Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Buffon's Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1781.

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