JACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768-1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou l’apute-juba [A brown-throated parakeet] Americas Usually in the eighteenth century

Usually in the eighteenth century the taking of an enemy’s capital entailed the end of the war

His travels

books and maps as they travelled

Sheet: 11 2/8” x 16 2/8” to the neat line

This frame would be particularly well-suited for a landscape

JACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768-1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou l’apute-juba [A brown-throated parakeet] Americas Usually in the eighteenth centuryJACQUES BARRABAND (FRENCH, 1768 1809) La Perruche a front jaune, ou lapute juba [A brown throated parakeet] Illustration for Franois Levaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Paris, vol 1 Plate 35 (1805 06) signed Barraband. f. and numbered 35 black chalk, watercolor and gouache on wove paper Paper size: 20 1 2 x 13 7 8 in. Frame size: 24 1 4 x 17 3 4 in. Provenance: Marcel Jeanson (1885 1942); Sothebys, London, 13 December 1996, lot 74.