American Bullfrog, Original Engraving by Buffon, 1775 Egret An original oil on canvas

An original oil on canvas of a single sailboat cutting through open blue water beneath a billowing sky

Dimensions: 10 x 14"

and editor during the Enlightenment era

5 x 66” vertical or 17

American Bullfrog, Original Engraving by Buffon, 1775 Egret An original oil on canvasOriginal copperplate engraving of the American Bullfrog (showing the dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) sides of the frog) by artist Franois Nicolas Martinet. From the natural history encyclopedia Histoire Naturelle, part of a larger work by the engraver Comte de Buffon, Circa 1774. Buffon (1707 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including