Courly à tête nu, du Cap de bonne Esperance (Bald Ibis from the Cape of Good Hope), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux, Paris, Imprimerie Royale
Artist: Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon|François Nicolas Martinet
Artist bio: French, 1708–1788|French, Paris 1731–ca. 1804
Artist role: Author|Artist
Artist nationality: French|French
Date: 1770–86
Medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/8 × 8 1/2 in. (24.4 × 21.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 11/16 in. (30.8 × 22 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession year: 2019
Tags: Birds