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The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 18½ × 23½ in, original size
- Format
- Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$225
Limited edition of 250
€200 incl. VAT in the EU
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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of Family of the Pheasants, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
A peacock stands on a bare branch with his long train hanging closed beneath him, the eye-spots falling in rows almost to the foot of the sheet. Below him sits the peahen, plain brown and white with a green neck. Red creeper leaves and the faint shapes of palms set the pair in a forest. Common Peafowl is the old name for the Indian Peafowl, the bird now kept in parks and gardens all over the world. Elliot counted the peafowl among the pheasants, a family he thought more important to people than any other, as the source of domestic poultry.
Common Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is plate 1-03 of Family of the Pheasants by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1870–1872). Today the species is known as the Indian Peafowl. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 18½ × 23½ in (47 × 60 cm).
About the original
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) published A Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants in two volumes between 1870 and 1872: 81 lithographed plates, 79 of them hand-coloured, by Joseph Wolf, Joseph Smit and John Gerrard Keulemans, with each bird shown in its habitat.
Elliot dedicated the work to Wolf, who drew or coloured many of the plates. He counted no bird family more important to people, as the source ‘of all the domestic poultry’.
- Title
- Family of the Pheasants
- Published
- 1870-1872
- Format
- Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 81 prints
