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L’Ara Macao

Today: Red-and-green Macaw

François Levaillant, plate 1

From Histoire naturelle des Perroquets

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
13¼ × 20¼ in, original size
Paper
White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink
Archival ink
Edition
Limited to 250 prints

$195

Limited edition of 250

€175 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 Histoire naturelle des Perroquets, 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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L’Ara Macao shown in a black and gold frame
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About this plate

L’Ara Macao is plate 1 of Histoire naturelle des Perroquets by François Levaillant (1801–1805). Today the species is known as the Red-and-green Macaw. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 13¼ × 20¼ in (33.5 × 51.5 cm).

About the original

François Levaillant (1753-1824), the French naturalist and traveller born in Paramaribo, published Histoire naturelle des perroquets between 1801 and 1805: two volumes with 145 stipple engravings after paintings by Jacques Barraband (1767-1809), printed in colour and finished by hand.

Barraband rendered each feather in fine parallel lines, and some plates were heightened with touches of gold on the cheeks and shoulders to suggest the sheen of the plumage.

Title
Histoire naturelle des Perroquets
Published
1801-1805
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
45 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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