Eleazar Albin
One knows only few things of the life of Eleazar Albin , his birth date is unknown and that of its death, in 1741 or 1742, is hardly precise.
It is a specialist in the Pastel who teaches the Dessin and the Peinture. One only knows of him it of works of Natural history. He illustrates many natural topics like the Oiseau X, the Insecte S, the Araignée S or the Poisson S.
Its first book is off has Natural History English Insects whose publication begins in 1714.
Three volumes of has Natural History Birds off are published in 1731, 1734 and 1738. This book is illustrated of more than 300 engravings on copper of unequal quality. The illustrated species are often new, which makes all the importance of this book.
He knows little the birds, the essence of information which he quotes coming from the Ornithologiae of Francis Willughby sometimes by making errors. Although he affirms to have carried out his illustrations according to the alive one, certain birds clearly died at the time when he paints them.
This book will be translated and adapted into French in 1750 by W. Derham ($the Hague).
It makes appear in 1736, off has Natural History Spiders, and other Curious Insects , where it illustrates 180 Araignée S different.
After the success of this book, Albin carries out a second book of Ornithologie, has off Natural History English Song Birds (1737).
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