Vögel No. XIX
Vögel No. XIX is a German natural history plate from 1836, a hand-coloured print of birds for students and naturalists. The image shows a grid of waterbirds and wading birds, including a crowned crane, a grey heron, a flamingo, a spoonbill, a lapwing and a sandpiper, each labelled in German with its common and Latin names. A designer could borrow the tidy specimen-chart layout, the labelled captions set around each figure, and the muted, slightly faded hand colouring.
