WIRSING, A. L.

Cotton-Vogel [Cotton-bird]

Nuremburg: Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1772.

Print. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring on laid paper. Image measures 11 1/2" x 7 1/2". Sheet measures 17 1/2" x 10".

This beautiful 18th century engraving depicts a cotton bird's nest, with two eggs.

Adam Ludwig Wirsing (1733-1797) was a German engraver and publisher based in Nuremberg. In very good condition. Full original margins. Wirsing created the work after Barbara Dietzsch to appear as watercolors. Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 - 1783) was a Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still life paintings.

Language: English

Price: $275.00

Item #301760