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Bennet’s Bird of Paradise
Drepanornis cervinicauda
Today: Black-billed Sicklebill
The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 15 × 22 in, original size
- Format
- Imperial folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$185
Limited edition of 250
€165 incl. VAT in the EU
Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.Including VAT. Free shipping in the Netherlands; elsewhere €26.50, free from €450 or 3 prints.
Reproduced from an original copy of Birds of New Guinea (incl. Birds of Paradise), Vol. 1.
- Free shipping from $500 or 3 prints, otherwise $45. Import duties included.Free shipping in the Netherlands. Elsewhere free from €450 or 3 prints, otherwise €26.50.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
- Returns within 14 days
A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from an original copy of Birds of New Guinea (incl. Birds of Paradise), Vol. 1.
- 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
Bennet’s Bird of Paradise (Drepanornis cervinicauda) is plate 10 of Birds of New Guinea (incl. Birds of Paradise), Vol. 1 by John Gould (1875–1888). Today the species is known as the Black-billed Sicklebill. This facsimile is made from the original and printed at the size of the original sheet, 15 × 22 in (38 × 56 cm).
About the original
The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands (1875-1888) was the last great work of John Gould (1804-1881): 320 hand-coloured lithographs in five volumes, with many birds of paradise, bowerbirds and parrots. Gould completed twelve of the 25 parts; Richard Bowdler Sharpe, his assistant, finished it after his death.
Volume 1 of five holds birds of prey and hawk-owls, the birds of paradise and manucodes, catbirds and bowerbirds, drongos and wood-shrikes. Its birds of paradise also form the collection Birds of Paradise, Vol. 1.
- Title
- Birds of New Guinea (incl. Birds of Paradise), Vol. 1
- Published
- 1875-1888
- Format
- Imperial folio
- In our collection
- 54 prints
