Bidspirit auction | Knorr, Folio - Penguin. 2

Knorr, Folio - Penguin. 2 - This superb, originally hand-colored folio engraving is from Georg Wolfgang Knorr’s rare, monumental work, Delices de la Nature ou Choix de tout ce que les Trois Regnes de la Nature … un Cabinet or Selected Delights of Nature, or the Exquisite Collector's Cabinet . The work was published in Nuremberg in 1779 by Ches les Heritiers for Knorr. The engravings are truly great illustrations from a German natural history work from the Golden Age of German printing. Knorr was a German paleontologist, painter, draftsman, engraver, collector, and art dealer. He learned engraving from Leonhard Blanc and Martin Tyroff and worked on the illustrations in Jacob Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra . He worked with the celebrated Christoph Jakob Trew as well. Knorr's Delices... is often considered his masterpiece. Paper Size ~ 13 1/4” by 19”