(Band 3)
This is a volume of hand-coloured natural history plates from 1753, produced by Johann Michael Seligmann after George Edwards and Mark Catesby for naturalists and collectors, held by Heidelberg University Library. The plates show perched birds on bare branches and mossy stumps against pale washes of background, rendered in precise engraved outline with flat, layered colour. A designer might draw on their clear, specimen-like poses and the restrained palette of greens, browns and blue-black plumage.
