Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Copperplate engraving - An original Leaf from "Encyclopedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts."
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1763
- Editor: Denis Diderot
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Overall Dimensions: 9.5 x 15.5 inches (24 x 39 cm), including blank margins around the group of images.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin).
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1. Green
color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on
which the print was photographed. 2. Print detail is much sharper than
the photo of the print.
- Partial Legend (machine translated from French, no editing):
- The
vignette represents the courtyard of the adjoining garden the
falconer's accommodation: you can see from both sides a covered
gallery, under which the birds are perched. Fig. 1. Falconer who
carries the cage, by means of two straps which pass over his shoulders:
it is on the edges of this cage that we carry buckets at the hunting
rendezvous. 2. Row of lawns where birds are placed in good weather.
3. Pole raised four feet, with which one place the birds on this pole hangs a canvas two feet wide.
- Fig. 2 (bottom) Hood or bonnet of the bird, topped with a
plumage aigrette. A, the hood seen from the front, from the side of the
opening through which the bird's beak passes. B, chaperone goes from
behind to the side where the cords, by means of which the hood is
tightened on the neck of the bird, after the head has entered it.
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