HANDCOLORED – COPPER PLATE ENGRAVING. Printed and Published in. VOLUME III – FIRST EDITION. ILLUSTRATIONS of NATURAL HISTORY. MOSES HARRIS and OTHERS. This ORIGINAL Print is One of 50 Plates Published in. Volume III of DRU DRURY’S Extremely Rare 1782 Treatise. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of EXOTIC INSECTS, according to their different genera, Very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, Being engraved and coloured from nature, with the Greatest accuracy, and under the author’s own inspection; on Fifty Copper-Plates; with a particular description of Each Insect, interspersed with remarks and reflection on the nature and properties of many of them. SUPERB and DELICATE HANDCOLORING! This ORIGINAL and RARE Dru DRURY Plate was. ENGRAVED and HAND-COLORED by the Highly Acclaimed. Engraver and Painter, MOSES HARRIS (1730-ca1788) or. Other Creators of the Fine Plates in Volume III. NOTE: A Facsimile of (1) the Title Page and (2) the text of Drury’s Original 1782 Descriptions of the. Be provided to the individual who acquires this rare item. Many of the handcolored figures in Drury’s three-volume work represented. Species that he described using the Binomial System prescribed by his friend and contemporary. Carolus Linnaeus, in the tenth edition. Systema Naturae published in 1758! Drury’s descriptions were provided in English in the left-hand column, and the French equivalent in the adjacent right-hand column of the text. This bilingual English/French format, designed to reduce ambiguity and confusion, continues even today in the. INTERNATIONAL CODE of ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. Page is about 8.5 inches X 11 inches; Plate Block is well defined, and. Except as may be shown in the image is free of marks and foxing. GUARANTEED to be an ORIGINAL Page from the. VERY RARE 1782 Drury Treatise! Print is Over 240 Years Old! Drury produced and published a total of three (3) volumes of ILLUSTRATIONS of NATURAL HISTORY. Volume I was published in 1770, Volume II in 1773, and Volume III in 1782. Moses HARRIS engraved and painted all plates. Of Volumes I and II. And most but not all of the plates in Volume III. Each Drury Volume Contained 50 Handcolored Copper-Engraved plates on. All Original DRURY Volumes are EXTREMELY RARE! No complete First Edition volumes of this work have been available. Anywhere on the internet for nearly a decade! Drury’s original work was revised by J. After Drury’s death, by Henry G. This revision included three volumes, with all 150 plates handcolored on handwove paper. The text for this revision was published without the French component of. Drury’s original, and offered technical clarification by Westwood of Drury’s taxonomic analyses, but without access to. Plates from Westwood’s mid-1800’s revised work, credited to Drury. Are available on occasion, and the entire volume… Some NOTES about the Author/Collector – DRU DRURY. He was also a prolific collector of insect specimens and his personal collection, which he created over a period of some 30 years, contained an estimated 11,000 specimens; about half of which were beetles, butterflies and moths, and an estimated 2,000 of which were species of Great Britain. Most of the specimens in this massive assemblage… Undoubtedly the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world…. Dru Drury was a silversmith and jeweler, a profession he inherited from his father in 1748. He was sufficiently successful in this trade to be appointed goldsmith to Queen Charlotte (wife of George III), to provide for a wife and their seventeen offspring, and to support his hobbies (gardening & winemaking) and entomological passions as well. Anderson from details extracted from several sources. Some NOTES about the Engraver/Artist – MOSES HARRIS. MOSES HARRIS (1730-ca1788) was a highly accomplished artist, engraver and painter, although much about his personal life remains unknown. He was a contemporary of Dru Drury and other 18th century British entomologists, and like his father before him and Drury, too, he was an active member of Aurelian Society–a group of entomologists who named their association after a latin term– aureolus –meaning golden, in reference to the impressive and golden case unique to the pupal chrysalids of certain butterflies. In addition to the outstanding plates he produced for Drury’s Illustrations of Natural History, he published an excellent little handbook The English Lepidoptera, or, the Aurelian’s Pocket Companion (1775, and others to 1782), outstanding plates for William Curtis’ The Botanical Magazine, and William Martyn’s two-volume New Dictionary of Natural History (1785). Essentially ALL PLATES Produced by MOSES HARRIS are VALUABLE, HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE Prints! 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- VERY RARE HAND-COLORED PRINT!: COPPER PLATE on CHAINLINKED PAPER!
- Width (Inches): 9
- EXQUISITE HAND COLORING!: OVER 240 YEARS OLD!
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14\
- Production Technique: Copper-Plate Engraving
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Subject: NATURAL HISTORY – Insects
- Size: Small (up to 12in.)
- Framed/Unframed: Unframed
- Material: Copper Plate
- Height (Inches): 12
- Print Surface: Handlaid Chainlinked Paper
- Main Color: BROWN – ORANGE – GRAY – WHITE
- Print Type: HANDCOLORED/COPPER PLATE/HAND-LAID PAPER
- Date of Creation: Pre-1800
- Artist: Moses HARRIS/Others
- Year of Production: 1782
- Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
- Edition Type: Limited Edition
- Style: NATURAL HISTORY
- Color: Multi-Color
- Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
- Type: Print
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print