Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d’Oiseaux

Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d'Oiseaux

1820–1839

March 31, 1778 - January 30, 1858

Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist. The work Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d’Oiseaux (A New Collection of Colored Plates of Birds) was published during Temmnick’s tenure as the first director of the National Natural History Museum in Leiden. It was illustrated with beautiful copperplate engravings by Jean Gabriel Prêtre and Nicholas Huet.