(Band 3)
This is a hand-coloured plate sheet from a late eighteenth-century German natural history work by Friedrich Justin and Carl Bertuch, published in 1798 and held by Heidelberg University Library, with numbered figures of birds on branches. The pictures are small, lightly outlined engravings with washed colour, showing finches, thrushes and a blackbird-like bird in plain perched poses; a designer might take their simple numbered plate layout and muted earth-toned palette as a model for specimen-style charts.
