Books by BARRABAND Jacques

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving. Very good condition. Trimmed inside plate mark on three sides. 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches. 13 x 9 3/4 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of Sèvres. His most important work was undoubtedly the 300 or... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of S... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. Very good condition. Trimmed within plate mark on three sides. 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches. 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine (1745-1809), the eminent flower painter, and is known to have worked for both the Gobelin Factory and the porcelain factory of S... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving, finished by hand, engraved by Bouquet, printed by Langlois. 19 1/4 x 12 5/8 inches. This print is from an apparently unrecorded issue of Levaillant's Perroquets published on large format paper (probably 'papier vélin colombier satiné'), with a scratch proof of the title and plate number, but otherwise avant-lettre. This issue is not recorded in any of the standard bibliographies. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological arti... more information

Paris: 1801-05. Colour-printed stipple engraving. Extremely rare proof impression: one of only 10 copies printed. A member of a family with 11 species or sub-species, the Yellow-crowned Amazon is a generally common native to southern and central Colombia east of the Andes across Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, northern Brazil and Trinidad. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine ... more information