Vögel No. XVI
Vögel No. XVI is an 1836 German natural history plate of waterfowl, most likely a single numbered sheet from a bird book for naturalists and students. The first picture shows a hand-coloured arrangement of nine ducks, geese, a diver and an albatross-like seabird, each labelled with German and Latin names. The second picture is a close crop of the same plate, with a grey-and-yellow bill and a black bird with a red bill, along with a scan-strip edge. For a designer, the sheet offers a clear model for taxonomic layouts, with birds arranged on a grid and tiny labelled captions.
