Francoise Nicolas Martinet (1760-1800) Plate 702: Le Roi des Fourmilliers de Cayenne From: Histoire naturelle Des Oiseaux Paris: 1770-86 Hand-colored copperplate engraving. Sheet Dimension: 11 x 8.5 in. Francois Nicolas Martinet engraved illustrations of birds for books by some of the most influential ornithologist in 18th-century France. This edition, containing 1,008 images by Martinet, was certainly the most ambitious and comprehensive bird book, which had appeared at the time of it publication. Martinet completed both the original drawing