GEORGES CUVIER 1835 BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPH OF THE ROCK SPARROW, THE BLACK FATHER ROBIN, AND THE HOUSE SPARROW ( LE MOINEAU, LE PERE NOIR, ET LE SOULCIE )
GEORGES CUVIER 1835 BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPH OF THE ROCK SPARROW, THE BLACK FATHER ROBIN, AND THE HOUSE SPARROW ( LE MOINEAU, LE PERE NOIR, ET LE SOULCIE )
Original Art by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, taken from Georges Cuvier’s Complete Works de Buffon, ( Oeuvres complètes de Buffon )
Taken from Volume Eight of a twelve volume set.
Edited by P. Duménil
This print is not “new” or in “new condition.” This is an antique print and that will be reflected in the quality of the work. It was printed in 1835 and is in moderate condition considering its age. The full page is approx. 8”L x 4 ⅞ ”W and the piece itself contains large aging spots and foxing. All wear and tear has been photographed carefully.
The print pictured is the one that you will receive.
Sometimes referred to as the father of Archaeology for his work proving the Theory of Extinction, Cuvier was a French Naturalist and Zoologist. Born Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier in Montbéliard, a German duchy near the Swiss border, he received an education very early in his life. His father was a General of the Swiss army and a well to do man in the town, and his mother, much younger than his father, spent a lot of her time tutoring him at a young age. This set him up for great success as he got older, and he spent a lot of his youth far ahead of the other children in his age group. In secondary school is where he found his interest in the natural sciences, and upon receiving higher education in Stuttgart, he was really able to flourish with the information he was learning. Though after graduation he was very poor and on his own, so he took up a tutoring position in the Normandy region of France in order to make some income. During this time he would do solo investigations and compile many papers of his own discoveries, particularly on marine invertebrates, such as mollusks. This caught the attention of a zoology professor at the Natural History Museum in Paris, where he would join their ranks for a short time and collaborate with said professor on a few more papers. Cuvier would go on to refuse an offer from Napoleon himself to explore Egypt, instead preferring to stay to study comparative anatomy. Though he was not without his own issues, Cuvier would also go on to become the man to “dissect” The “Venus of Hottentot,” or Sarah Baartman ( Ssehura ). His “findings” and conclusions would be some of the first to implement racial bias in science and medicine. He himself even had spoken with her multiple times and referred to her as “a very intelligent woman with a great memory, particularly for faces,” yet still compared her likeness to primates. Cuvier died at the age of 62 in May of 1832.
All items listed are from V&J Duncan in Savannah, GA. The shop began in 1983 with one tabletop of antique maps and has grown into a vast collection of old engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, photographs, old books, and antique prints. We have prints of architectural interest, birds, animals, botanicals, fashion, sporting scenes and tens of thousands of portraits. Our inventory also includes views and maps of Savannah and other cities, all U.S. states and most countries of the world. Visit us in Savannah, Georgia, or shop inventory here online.
All prints are rolled and shipped in a poster tube. Smaller prints will be shipped in a rigid media mail folder.
GEORGES CUVIER 1835 BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPH OF THE ROCK SPARROW, THE BLACK FATHER ROBIN, AND THE HOUSE SPARROW ( LE MOINEAU, LE PERE NOIR, ET LE SOULCIE )
Original Art by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, taken from Georges Cuvier’s Complete Works de Buffon, ( Oeuvres complètes de Buffon )
Taken from Volume Eight of a twelve volume set.
Edited by P. Duménil
This print is not “new” or in “new condition.” This is an antique print and that will be reflected in the quality of the work. It was printed in 1835 and is in moderate condition considering its age. The full page is approx. 8”L x 4 ⅞ ”W and the piece itself contains large aging spots and foxing. All wear and tear has been photographed carefully.
The print pictured is the one that you will receive.
Sometimes referred to as the father of Archaeology for his work proving the Theory of Extinction, Cuvier was a French Naturalist and Zoologist. Born Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier in Montbéliard, a German duchy near the Swiss border, he received an education very early in his life. His father was a General of the Swiss army and a well to do man in the town, and his mother, much younger than his father, spent a lot of her time tutoring him at a young age. This set him up for great success as he got older, and he spent a lot of his youth far ahead of the other children in his age group. In secondary school is where he found his interest in the natural sciences, and upon receiving higher education in Stuttgart, he was really able to flourish with the information he was learning. Though after graduation he was very poor and on his own, so he took up a tutoring position in the Normandy region of France in order to make some income. During this time he would do solo investigations and compile many papers of his own discoveries, particularly on marine invertebrates, such as mollusks. This caught the attention of a zoology professor at the Natural History Museum in Paris, where he would join their ranks for a short time and collaborate with said professor on a few more papers. Cuvier would go on to refuse an offer from Napoleon himself to explore Egypt, instead preferring to stay to study comparative anatomy. Though he was not without his own issues, Cuvier would also go on to become the man to “dissect” The “Venus of Hottentot,” or Sarah Baartman ( Ssehura ). His “findings” and conclusions would be some of the first to implement racial bias in science and medicine. He himself even had spoken with her multiple times and referred to her as “a very intelligent woman with a great memory, particularly for faces,” yet still compared her likeness to primates. Cuvier died at the age of 62 in May of 1832.
All items listed are from V&J Duncan in Savannah, GA. The shop began in 1983 with one tabletop of antique maps and has grown into a vast collection of old engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, photographs, old books, and antique prints. We have prints of architectural interest, birds, animals, botanicals, fashion, sporting scenes and tens of thousands of portraits. Our inventory also includes views and maps of Savannah and other cities, all U.S. states and most countries of the world. Visit us in Savannah, Georgia, or shop inventory here online.
All prints are rolled and shipped in a poster tube. Smaller prints will be shipped in a rigid media mail folder.
GEORGES CUVIER 1835 BLACK AND WHITE LITHOGRAPH OF THE ROCK SPARROW, THE BLACK FATHER ROBIN, AND THE HOUSE SPARROW ( LE MOINEAU, LE PERE NOIR, ET LE SOULCIE )
Original Art by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, taken from Georges Cuvier’s Complete Works de Buffon, ( Oeuvres complètes de Buffon )
Taken from Volume Eight of a twelve volume set.
Edited by P. Duménil
This print is not “new” or in “new condition.” This is an antique print and that will be reflected in the quality of the work. It was printed in 1835 and is in moderate condition considering its age. The full page is approx. 8”L x 4 ⅞ ”W and the piece itself contains large aging spots and foxing. All wear and tear has been photographed carefully.
The print pictured is the one that you will receive.
Sometimes referred to as the father of Archaeology for his work proving the Theory of Extinction, Cuvier was a French Naturalist and Zoologist. Born Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier in Montbéliard, a German duchy near the Swiss border, he received an education very early in his life. His father was a General of the Swiss army and a well to do man in the town, and his mother, much younger than his father, spent a lot of her time tutoring him at a young age. This set him up for great success as he got older, and he spent a lot of his youth far ahead of the other children in his age group. In secondary school is where he found his interest in the natural sciences, and upon receiving higher education in Stuttgart, he was really able to flourish with the information he was learning. Though after graduation he was very poor and on his own, so he took up a tutoring position in the Normandy region of France in order to make some income. During this time he would do solo investigations and compile many papers of his own discoveries, particularly on marine invertebrates, such as mollusks. This caught the attention of a zoology professor at the Natural History Museum in Paris, where he would join their ranks for a short time and collaborate with said professor on a few more papers. Cuvier would go on to refuse an offer from Napoleon himself to explore Egypt, instead preferring to stay to study comparative anatomy. Though he was not without his own issues, Cuvier would also go on to become the man to “dissect” The “Venus of Hottentot,” or Sarah Baartman ( Ssehura ). His “findings” and conclusions would be some of the first to implement racial bias in science and medicine. He himself even had spoken with her multiple times and referred to her as “a very intelligent woman with a great memory, particularly for faces,” yet still compared her likeness to primates. Cuvier died at the age of 62 in May of 1832.
All items listed are from V&J Duncan in Savannah, GA. The shop began in 1983 with one tabletop of antique maps and has grown into a vast collection of old engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, photographs, old books, and antique prints. We have prints of architectural interest, birds, animals, botanicals, fashion, sporting scenes and tens of thousands of portraits. Our inventory also includes views and maps of Savannah and other cities, all U.S. states and most countries of the world. Visit us in Savannah, Georgia, or shop inventory here online.
