Skip to main contentDescriptionPage of a bestiary with two vertically arranged images, the lower being a bull buffalo facing right in a landscape. Info sheet on back of the frame is wrong. George Louis Leclerc is the Compte de Buffon, but probably did not do any of his own illustrations.
Le Betier Valachien, 2. La Brebis (from Histoire Naturelle...Paris)
Artist/Maker
Artist Unknown
Datec. 1830
MediumHand colored engraving on hand laid paper
Dimensionssight: 5 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (14.6 × 8.3 cm)
frame: 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Pierce Collection from Roy Pierce and Winnifred Poland Pierce, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2001.167.011
ClassificationsPrint
Keyword
On View
Not on viewJohn James Audubon
Henry Delano Gobin
c. 1746