Eleazer Albin Four C18thc Hand Coloured Engravings of Birds

Eleazer Albin, four c18th Hand Coloured Engravings of Birds. Highly Decorative.

Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690 - c.1742) as an English Naturist and watercolour illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects (1736). He has been described as one of the "great entomological book illustrators of the 18th century".

Nothing is known of his early life, though he may have been German-born and claimed to have been in Jamaica in 1701. In 1708 he is known to have been married and living in Picadilly, London According to autobiographical details in A Natural History of English Insects, Albin taught watercolour painting before being instructed in natural history by silk weaver and naturalist Joseph Dandridge

In his work on birds he describes the wood crow from a stuffed especimen, being probably the last description of this bird made while the species was, probably, still extant.

26 x 21 cms

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