Vögel No. XV
Vögel No. XV is a German natural history plate from 1836, showing wading birds in hand-coloured engraving for students and naturalists. The plate arranges a grid of shorebirds and waders, each labelled with a German and Latin name, set against small painted patches of grass and reeds. A designer could take its tidy specimen-grid layout and the careful plumage colour for vintage field-guide or botanical-style pages.
