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goodnefs I attribute much of tlie fuccefs I had in Sciences^ Mr. h Chevalier Sloane, car favoue^ que 

 this undertaking, c'eji a fa honte que je fuis redevabk du fucces^ que 



fai eu dans cette entreprife. 



ye ne fun pas pei?ttre de profeJft07i^ ai?i/t fefpere 



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As I was "hot bred a Fainter I hope fome faults 



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 ou J at 



in ' Perfpeaive," and other niceties, may be more quon excujera plus aifhnent quelques fauUs de Per 



readily excufed: fori humbly conceive that Plants, fpeSfm, &> quelques autres finejfes de V Art^ 



and other Things done in a Flat, tho' exad manner, peut-etre 7na?ique; car il rne femble que les Plantes^ 



may ferve the Purpofe of Natural Hiftory, better in ou les autres €hofcs que fai dejfmees exaSiement, quoi 



fome Meafure, than in a more bold and Painter-like 



que fans PerfpeSlhey peuvent 



itre 



auffi utiles pour 



Way. In defigning the Plants, I always did them rUifloire naturelle, & memeplus, que fi elks etoie?it 

 while frefli and juft gathered : and the Animals, par- 

 ticularly the Bird, I painted while alive (except a p'iBorefquel J'ai toujours depie les Pla7ites ioutes 



exprimees plus hardtment^ ^ d^une fna7uere plus 



very few) and gave them their Geftures peculiar to 



every kind of Birds, and where it could be admitted, cueillir 



fraicheSj &' da7U le mo7?ient quo?i venoit de les 



I have adapted the Birds to thofe Plants on which 

 they fed, or have any relation to. Fifh, which do 

 not retain their colours when out of their Element, 

 I painted at different times, having a fucceffion of 

 them procured while the former loft their colours : 

 I do not pretend to have had this advantage in all, 

 for fome kinds I faw not plenty of, and of others I 

 never faw above one or two. Reptiles will live 



les Animauxy fur tout les Oifeaux. 



pendant quils etoie?it vivans^ except e un trh petit 

 nomhre :je leur at donne a chacun f on attitude propre ; 

 ^ autant quil a ete poffibky fai joint les Oifeaux 



aux Plantes defquelles ilsfe nourriffent^ ou aux:~quelles 

 Us ont quelque rapport. J^ai peint^ a differentes re- 

 prifeSy les Poiffons qui perdent leurs couleurs^ lorf- 

 qiiils font hors deVeau: on tn en four niffoit toujours 

 de nouveauXy quand les autres ne pouvoieitt plus me 



many months without fuftenance ; fo that I had no y^^^^.^y . dependant je n'aipas eu cette commoditk pour 

 difficulty in painting them while hvmg. ^^^^^ ^^^ ./^ ^^ ^ ^^^;^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^ . ^^^^^,^^ 



tres raresy &' de quelques unes je nai vu qtiun da 



di 



eux 



Poiffons* 



Pour les ReptileSy comme Us vivent 



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plufieurs mots fans manger ^ je n at trouve aucum 

 difficulte ^ les peindre vivans. 



At my return from America, in ' the year 1726, A mon retour de VAmerique en Vamtee 1 7 2 6, 



I had the fatisfadion of having my labours approved f^^s la fatisfaSiion de voir mon travail approuve\ 



of; and was honoured with the Advice of feve- ^ plufieurs de ceux que fai nojnmes ci-deffus^ gens 



ral of the above-mentioned Gentlemen, moft /killed t^'^s verfes dans VHifloire naturelle^ mhonorerent de 



in the Learning of Nature, who were pleafed to 



leurs 



avts 



jugeant que mon ouvrage meritoit 



think them worth Publifhing, but that the expence of d etre publie. Us crurent que la dkpenfe de la gravure 

 Graving would make it too burthenfome an Under- rendroit cette entreprife trop difficile, Ce fentiment 



This Opinion, from fuch good Judges, q^^i venoit de fi hons juges me decouragea alors de 



takin 



g 



difcouraged me from attempting it any further: and la pouffer plus loin, &' je quittai le dejfein d'aller 

 I alter'd my Defign of going to Paris ov Amfierdam ^ -P^m m a Afnfierdajn ou favois projette d'ahord 

 where I at firft propofed to have them done. At length defaire graver mes deffeins, E?^?^^ encourage par 



les ho 



ns avtSy Qsf les inftruSlions de cet inimitable 



by the kind advice and Inftrudions of that inimit- 

 able Painter Mr. Jofeph Gvupy, I undertook, and ' Peintre Mr. ]ok^\i Gou^y^ fai appris a les graver 

 was Initiated in the way of, etching them myfelf, moitneme ; ^ quoi que je n aye pas fuivi la methode 



which I have not done in a Graver-like manner, des graveurs^ qui efi de hacher les traits^ aima7it 7nieux 



chopfingrather to omit their method of crofs-Hatch- fuivre le trait des plumes ^ ce qui dematide plus Je 



ing, ' and to follow the humour of the Feathers, travail, je 7ne fiatte que ma maniere a i7iieux reuffl 



ope 



h 



as 



proved 



which is more laborious, and I 



more to the purpofe. 



The Illuminating Natural Hiftory is fo particu- 



pour 77wn deffein. 



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II efifi7ieceffaire, pour blen e?itendre V Hifioire na- 

 larly eftential to the perfed underftanding of it, turelle, d\nlu7ni7ier les deffeins qui en reprefentent 



that I may aver a clearer Idea may be conceived quelque partie, que je puis affilrer quon fe for7nera 



from 



une 



