[Tafelband.]

34 pictures

This is a plate-style natural history volume of hand-coloured copper engravings of amphibians, probably German, from the late eighteenth century, catalogued only as a tafelband, or plate volume. The pictures show frogs and toads posed in profile or from above against plain ground, with stippled skin, sketched pond edges and tinted washes of blue, green and brown that a designer could borrow for botanical or field-guide style layouts.

e-rara · C.G. Jung · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library