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8. Le Geai. [Jay.]La Venerie - Souvenirs de Chasses.
Edouard Traviés [signed in plate]. Imp. Becquet, rue des Noyers, 37.
[Paris, n.d., c.1854.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 530 x 355mm. 20¾ x 14".
A dead jay tied by its legs and suspended from a hook; in a frame. From a series of dead quarry by Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865). Traviès was born in Doullens in the Somme district of France in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolour (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography, as here.
[Ref: 22489] £500.00
[Paris, n.d., c.1854.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 530 x 355mm. 20¾ x 14".
A dead jay tied by its legs and suspended from a hook; in a frame. From a series of dead quarry by Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865). Traviès was born in Doullens in the Somme district of France in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolour (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography, as here.
[Ref: 22489] £500.00