Traviès édouard 1809 1865 (3 résultats)

Oblong folio. (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches). 25 hand-colored lithographed plates after Edouard Travies. Publisher's decorated cloth boards, all edges gilt A rare Philadelphia ornithological album of 25 hand-coloured lithographs for a bilingual (in German and English) American market. In this vibrant ornithological album, the plates are arranged geographically, beginning with America, followed by Europe, Asia, and Australia. American birds predominate, including hummingbirds, while the Australian section includes parrots and birds-of-paradise. The compositions show a clear homage to the ornithological work of Édouard Traviès de Villers, with birds placed in fully developed settings of foliage, insects, branches, and landscape. This richer pictorial treatment gives the album a decorative character beyond that of a simple species book, while preserving the appeal of mid-nineteenth-century natural history illustration. Weik & Wieck, styling themselves "Publishers & Importers," appear to have functioned chiefly as importers and distributors of European-made illustrated books for sale in Philadelphia. The bilingual captions, in English and German, suggest an intended audience among the city's German-speaking readers, while also allowing the plates to circulate in German-language markets.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio (21 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.; 55.3 x 36.8 cm). 58 (of 79) fine consecutively numbered handcolored lithographic plates by Traviès;(early plates a bit spotted, last plate with longish closed tear affecting the image. Contemporary full blue morocco gilt, the spine in 6 compartments gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; boards a trifle scuffed, corners bumped, rebacked to style. ".SIMPLY WONDERFUL. AMONG THE BEST PORTRAITS OF BIRDS EVER PAINTED" (Wood). FIRST EDITION of this beautiful work by "one of the finest painters at work in the first half of the 19th century" (Jackson). The plates were originally issued in serial form, without title or text, and traditionally this work calls for 79 plates, but it has been thought that plates 60 and 79 were never published. Traviès' artistry represents a pinnacle in French ornithological illustration. Natural history, as a descriptive pursuit bent on identifying new species, demanded detailed illustrations. The minute precision of Traviès' work places him with the best of France's scientific artists. Traviès was born in Doullens, in the Somme district of France, in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolor (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography. Unlike a number of his contemporaries, he was an artist both with the brush and on stone. The majority of the illustrations show species of birds native to Europe, but some plates are birds native to America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Pacific region. The artist depicts the birds in association with flowering plants indigenous to their habitats, such as orchids, passion flowers, and varieties of eucalyptus. Traviès' original watercolors were reproduced as both engravings and lithographs, which are considered among the best portraits of birds ever painted. REFERENCES: Fine Bird Books, p. 147; Nissen IVB 946; Wood 601 PROVENANCE: Madelaine Jay (modern armorial bookplate on the front paste-down) (L64F21H).…

Hardcover. Folio (13 1/4 x 10 in.; 33.7 x 25.4 cm). 40 numbered lithographed plates with original handcoloring by Godard after Lemercier after Travies; some margins a bit thumbed. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, original blue printed paper front wrapper bound in as title-page; scuffed, wrapper with one or two marks and a short tear near the lower edge. A reprinting of 40 plates from the iconic work of Edouard Traviès "Les Oiseaux les plus remarquables par leurs formes et leurs coleurs. Scènes variées de leurs moeurs & de leur habitudes," published simultaneously in Paris and London circa 1857. Traviès' artistry represents a pinnacle in French ornithological illustration. Traviès' artistry represents a pinnacle in French ornithological illustration. Natural history, as a descriptive pursuit bent on identifying new species, demanded detailed illustrations. The minute precision of Traviès' work places him with the best of France's scientific artists. Traviès was born in Doullens, in the Somme district of France, in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolor (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography. Unlike a number of his contemporaries, he was an artist both with the brush and on stone. The majority of the illustrations show species of birds native to Europe, but some plates are birds native to America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Pacific region. The artist depicts the birds in association with flowering plants indigenous to their habitats, such as orchids, passion flowers, and varieties of eucalyptus. Traviès' original watercolors were reproduced as both engravings and lithographs, which are considered among the best portraits of birds ever painted. REFERENCE : Nissen IVB 944. Catalogued by Kate Hunter (L64F21H). …