April 17, 2024
1793 Rare William Lewin Engraving - FEMALE PIED FLY CATCHER - Second Edition
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A rare hand colored engraving from the Second Edition of William Lewin's mammoth undertaking "The Birds of Great Britain, with their Eggs, Accurately Figured" published between 1793 and 1801. This is Plate 94 - Female Pied Fly Catcher - of the 323 different illustrations that Lewin painted himself over a period of 20 years (see history of the work below). The engraving is dated in the plate 1793 Good condition. Overall page size 10 x 13 inches. Image 5 x 6 inches A great collectors item with accompanying text. See more examples of this publication including First Edition watercolors in Seller's Other Items William Lewin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named William Lewin, see William Lewin (disambiguation) . William Lewin (1747–1795) was an English naturalist and illustrator.Lewin grew up in Stepney , the son of a rate mariner. In 1776 he was earning a living as a pattern drawer, and by 1783 was describing himself as a painter. He specialised in natural history subjects.In 1789 he began to issue his The Birds of Great Britain, with Their Eggs, Accurately Figured , which he had been working on for the previous twenty years. It included 323 watercolour sketches of each of the 271 of birds and 52 plates of eggs, all which he hand-painted himself for the 60 copy first edition, a total of 19,380 individual paintings.
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