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Purple Pitta

Today: Garnet Pitta

Daniel Giraud Elliot, plate 15

From Family of the Ant Thrushes

The print

Technique: Facsimile giclée
Sheet: 13¾ × 21¼ in, original size
Format: Folio
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.

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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 Family of the Ant Thrushes, 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

Purple Pitta shown in a black and gold frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Purple Pitta shown in a dark wood frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Ready for your framer

Try three frame styles to see how the print hangs on a wall. Your print arrives unframed, as the full sheet with its margins, plate number and engraved caption.

About this plate

Purple Pitta is plate 15 of Family of the Ant Thrushes by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1861–1863). Today the species is known as the Garnet Pitta. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 13¾ × 21¼ in (35 × 54 cm).

About the original

Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) published A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant Thrushes between 1861 and 1863, his first monograph: 31 hand-coloured lithographs of pittas. Elliot drew 24 of the plates himself; in the preface he wrote that he ‘felt compelled to turn draughtsman’.

Every plate includes a flowering plant, and the birds are shown in motion: chasing a beetle, recoiling from a snake, taking off after a fly.