Description Medium: Lithograph with original old hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper. Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 23 x 30 cm. (9.06 x 11.81 inch). Condition: good, given age. Minor foxing/staining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. BIRD OF PARADISE-STARLING-COWBIRD-CROW | PCO-A194-30 BACKGROUND INFORMATION This old antique print originates from: ‘Abbildungen zu Oken’s allgemeiner Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’, published by Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung in Stuttgart, Germany 1833 ? 1841. Biography artist: Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), was a German transcendental naturalist, philosopher & physician. Born Okenfuss, the son of a farmer, he simplified his name to Oken while at medical school in Freiburg, Bavaria. Oken was a prolific & vocal writer, lecturer and theorist, publishing many philosophical treatises during his life. His masterpiece and lasting legacy to the world is the 13-volume ‘Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande’ (Natural History for all Social Ranks), first published between 1833 and 1841. This plate engraved by C. Mayer.