1807 Aquatints- Wm Daniell- 2 Plates #16 & 17 Scorpion

Plate No. 16 Scorpion and

Plate No. 17  Centipede ( Scolopendra Moritans )

includes related 5 pages of original text.

      Two original prints from Wood, William. Zoography: or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions from the Animal, and Vegetable, with Additions from the Mineral Kingdom. Systematically Arranged. VOL. II. London: Cabell and Davies, 1807. 618 pp. Beautiful engraved Aquatint plates by William Daniell. VOL. II of a 3-volume work.

 Plates are very Good w/ some minor aging in the margins,  from a Large paper 1st edition- 10 1/4 in. by 6 1/2 in.  We will combine on shipping additional prints.  Great chance to add Daniell plates from this fine series to your collection.

This volume covers reptiles, fishes, insects, "crustacious animals", "testacious animals", and zoophytes. Besides zoological information, it includes period information of interest about such topics as fishing, electrical experiments with torpedo fish, guana egg hunting, and so forth. This book is esteemed for the content as well as the beautiful plates.

"An esteemed work". Lowndes 2986  'The illustrations by William Daniell are all in pure aquatint. They are very good instances of the applications of the aquatint process to this particular class of subject, the entire absence of line for purposes of definition proving once for all that the gradation of tone, if well managed, is amply sufficient for the purpose.' Prideaux, page 292.

William Daniell (1769-1837) was one of the foremost landscape artists of the early Nineteenth Century. He acquired his scholarship in art, and specifically aquatint engraving, whilst apprentice to his uncle, Thomas Daniell (1749-1840), a renowned artist in his own right and pioneer in the development of the aquatint process in Britain.  The engraving of aquatint plates was a complicated process, but one at which Daniell was said to have become so skilled he was capable of producing a plate in a single day.