Lot N. 19
Shells (1789)
two watercolor etchings, with passe-partout, slight traces of foxing
passe-partout 46x39 cm (2)
Robert Benard Direxit.
From Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature (1782-1832), Histoire Naturelle (revised and expanded version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie) published in 1789 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, plates 190 and 210