Vögel No. IV
Vögel No. IV is an 1836 German natural-history plate book of birds, apparently a single numbered plate for a general readership learning parrot species. The first picture is a hand-coloured engraving of a white cockatoo with a yellow crest perched on a dark branch, rendered in fine stippled shading. The second is a multi-species plate of labelled parrots, including a red macaw, a grey parrot, a white cockatoo and a green parrot, each captioned in German with its Latin name. A designer might take the crisp, labelled arrangement of specimens on a plain ground as a model for layout, and the stipple shading as a reference for soft feather texture.
