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VAUTHIER, Antoine Charles (1790-after 1831). '1. Le Calybé. 2. L'Etourneau des terres-magellaniques. 3 Le Cassique de la Louisiane' and '1. Le Tangara du mississippi. 2 Le Tangara du Canada. 3. Le Tangara Noir'.
VAUTHIER, Antoine Charles (1790-after 1831). '1. Le Calybé. 2. L'Etourneau des terres-magellaniques. 3 Le Cassique de la Louisiane' and '1. Le Tangara du mississippi. 2 Le Tangara du Canada. 3. Le Tangara Noir'. 2 watercolour and bodycolour drawings (162 x 86mm and 148 x 86mm), both signed in the margin 'Vauthier pxit', pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, and bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic, gold framing lines, pencilled captions, further numbered in pencil '33bis' and '54' respectively, the first also titled at the head 'Oiseaux', window mounted, framed and glazed (unexamined out frames). TWO ORIGINAL ORNITHOLOGICAL DESIGNS BY VAUTHIER to illustrate Richard's edition of Buffon's Oeuvres (Paris: 1825-1828); the ten ornithological volumes contained 118 plates after Vauthier, and these two drawings are for plates 33bis and 54, and would have been executed shortly before Vauthier began illustrating René Lesson's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches (Paris: 1829-1830) and Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mammifères et oiseaux découverts depuis 1788 jusqu'à nos jours (Paris: 1828-1837), which was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere . For the published work, cf.: Ronsil p. 413; Zimmer pp. 111-112. (2)