Description
Magnificent engraving from the most desirable and largest edition of Knorr’s, ‘Deliciae naturae selectae’, with full original hand colouring. The engravings for this series were taken from specimens in famous German, ‘Cabinets of Curiositiies’ which were very much in vogue with wealthy European collectors. From Knorr’s ‘oder auserlesenes Naturalien-Cabinet’, (Selected Cabinet of Objects from Nature). Georg Wolfgang Knorr was a paleontologist, painter, draftsman, engraver, collector, publisher and art dealer.
