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Oiseau Mouche Rubis Topaze

Today: Ruby-topaz Hummingbird

Jean Théodore Descourtilz

From Brilliant Birds of Brazil

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
11½ × 17¾ in, original size
Format
Folio
Paper
White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink
Archival ink
Edition
Limited to 250 prints

$165

Limited edition of 250

€150 incl. VAT in the EU

Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.

Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

  • Free shipping from $500 or 3 prints, otherwise $45. Import duties included.
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  • Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
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A facsimile of the original sheet
  • Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of Brilliant Birds of Brazil, 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.

How your print is made

Oiseau Mouche Rubis Topaze shown in a black and gold frame
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About this plate

Oiseau Mouche Rubis Topaze is from Brilliant Birds of Brazil by Jean Théodore Descourtilz (1834). Today the species is known as the Ruby-topaz Hummingbird. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 11½ × 17¾ in (28.9 × 44.8 cm).

About the original

Jean Théodore Descourtilz (about 1796-1855), a French doctor, painter and ornithologist who lived and worked in Brazil, published Oiseaux brillans du Brésil in Paris in 1834, his first bird book: 60 hand-coloured lithographs, most showing a single species with the plants that feed and shelter it.

It is one of the rarest books on South American birds, and Descourtilz is thought to have coloured the plates himself.

Title
Brilliant Birds of Brazil
Published
1834
Format
Folio
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
60 prints
Gies Pluim at a table in the Teylers Museum library with plates from The Birds of America
Founder Gies Pluim in the library of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, where the original is kept.

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