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Forms part of Prints by Felix Bracquemond in Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.
Holdings checked in departmental copy of Henri Beraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, v. 3.
Illustrations, vignettes, title pages and frontispieces for works by various authors, including Charles Asselineau, Theodore de Banville, Charles Baudelaire, Philippe Burty, Champfleury, Philarete Chasles, Francois Coppee, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Theophile Gautier, Albert Glatigny, Jean de La Fontaine, Catulle Mendes, Charles Monselet, Abbe Prevost, Francois Rabelais and Mathurin Regnier. Also includes illustrations of the Gospels and the Jardin des Plantes. Many are in variant states and some are unpublished.
S.P. Avery Collection.
This list includes only small vignettes, title pages and frontispieces. Oversize title pages are listed separately in NYPG95-F237.
Title from H. Beraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, v. 3, p. 115.
Wood engravings are by other artists, after designs by Bracquemond.
Citation/Reference: B350
Title Animaux de basse-cour : coq et poule de Cochinechine, poules de Padoue huppées, poules de Balham, pigeons, dindons noirs et blancs.
Date 1854
Source http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-45a5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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The domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large poultry bird, domestic form of the wild turkey. The English language name for this species results from an early misidentification of the bird with an unrelated species which was imported to Europe through the country of Turkey. |
