Georg Dionys Ehret - The Duke Of Dorset Botanical Style:Gouttelette Print with large hollow trees to

with large hollow trees to use as roosting and nesting sites

Southeast Asia

Plate size: 14

Image size: 332 x 90 mm

Limited edition etching

Georg Dionys Ehret - The Duke Of Dorset Botanical Style:Gouttelette Print with large hollow trees toGeorg Dionysius Ehret produced 30 illustrations for the famous work The Natural History of Barbados by the Revd Griffith Hughes, which was published in London in 1750. Ehret may also have produced the engravings, which allowed the illustrations subsequently to be reproduced. Griffith Hughes was a noted Church of England clergyman and naturalist, baptized in 1707 and dying in approximately 1758. He received an MA from Oxford in 1748 and then relocated