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An open green Solander box with a plate of Elliot’s Family of the Pheasants on top of the stack

Family of the Pheasants, complete set

By Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1870-1872

All 81 plates of Family of the Pheasants as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 81 plates, each 18½ × 23½ in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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Family of the Pheasants

Contents

Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1870-1872

  1. 1-01Generec characters I
  2. 1-02Generic Characters II
  3. 1-03Common PeafowlPavo cristatus
  4. 1-04Blackshouldered PeafowlPavo nigripennis
  5. 1-05Javan PeafowlPavo muticus
  6. 1-06Common PolyplectronPolyplectron thibetanum
  7. 1-07Iris PolyplectronPolyplectron bicalcaratum
  8. 1-08Germain’s PolyplectronPolyplectron germaini
  9. 1-09Napoleon’s PolyplectronPolyplectron emphanum
  10. 1-10Sumatran PolyplectronPolyplectron chalcurum
  11. 1-11Great Argus PheasantArgus giganteus
  12. 1-12Gray’s Argus PheasantArgus grayi
  13. 1-13Ocellated Argus Pheasant. Many-spotted Argus Pheasant.Argus ocellatus, argus bipunctatus
  14. 1-14Hodgson’s Eared PheasantCrossoptilon thibetanum
  15. 1-15Drouyn’s Eared PheasantCrossoptilon drouynii
  16. 1-16Mantchurian Eared PheasantCrossoptilon mantchuricum
  17. 1-17Pallas’s Eared PheasantCrossoptilon auritum
  18. 1-18Himalayan Monal PheasantLophophorus impeyanus
  19. 1-19De l’Huys’s MonalLophophorus l’huysii
  20. 1-20Sclater’s MonalLophophorus sclateri
  21. 1-21Mou-pin PheasantTetraophasis obscurus
  22. 1-22Horned TragopanCeriornis satyra
  23. 1-23Black-headed TragopanCeriornis melanocephala
  24. 1-24Temminck’s TragopanCeriornis temminckii
  25. 1-25Cabot’s TragopanCeriornis caboti
  26. 1-26Blyth’s TragopanCeriornis blythii
  27. 1-27Pucras PheasantPucrasia macrolopha
  28. 1-28Duvaucel’s Pucras PheasantPucrasia duvaucelii
  29. 1-29Buff-spotted PucrasiaPucrasia xanthospila
  30. 1-30Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
  31. 1-31Mexican TurkeyMeleagris mexicana
  32. 1-32Ocellated TurkeyMeleagris ocellata
  33. 2-01Shaw’s PheasantPhasianus shawii
  34. 2-02Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
  35. 2-03Yark and PheasantPhasianus insignis
  36. 2-04Mongolian PheasantPhasianus mongolicus
  37. 2-05Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus torquatus
  38. 2-06Formosan PheasantPhasianus formosanus
  39. 2-07Ringless Chinese PheasantPhasianus decollatus
  40. 2-08Greenback Golden PheasantPhasianus elegans
  41. 2-09Japanese PheasantPhasianus versicolor
  42. 2-10Wallich’s PheasantPhasianus wallachii
  43. 2-11Reeves’s PheasantPhasianus reevesii
  44. 2-12Sommering’s PheasantPhasianus soemmerringii
  45. 2-13Phasianus Soemmerringi var. Scintillans
  46. 2-14Lady Amherst’s PheasantThaumalea amherstiae
  47. 2-15Golden PheasantThaumalea picta
  48. 2-16Black-throated Golden PheasantThaumalea obscura
  49. 2-17Hybrid Pheasant
  50. 2-18White-crested KaleecheEuplocamus albocristatus
  51. 2-19Black-backed KaleecheEuplocamus melanotus
  52. 2-20Hornsfield’s KaleecheEuplocamus horsfieldi
  53. 2-21Silver PheasantEuplocamus nycthemerus
  54. 2-22Anderson’s PheasantEuplocamus andersoni
  55. 2-23Lineated PheasantEuplocamus lineatus
  56. 2-24Siamese FirebackEuplocamus praelatus
  57. 2-25Swinhoe’s PheasantEuplocomus swinhoei
  58. 2-26Fire-back PheasantEuplocamus ignitus
  59. 2-27Bornean Fire-backEuplocamus nobilis
  60. 2-28Rufous-tail PheasantEuplocamus erythrophthalmus
  61. 2-29Bornean Fire-back PheasantEuplocamus pyronotus
  62. 2-30Blood PheasantIthaginis cruentus
  63. 2-31Geoffroy’s Blood PheasantIthaginis geoffroyii
  64. 2-32Red Jungle-fowlGallus ferrugineus
  65. 2-33Lafayette’s Jungle-fowlGallus lafayettii
  66. 2-34Sonnerat’s Jungle-fowlGallus sonnerati
  67. 2-35Forked-tail Jungle-fowlGallus varius
  68. 2-36Black PhasisPhasidus niger
  69. 2-37African AgelastesAgelastes meleagrides
  70. 2-38Vulturine Guinea-fowlAccryllium vulturinum
  71. 2-39Common Guinea-fowlNumida meleagris
  72. 2-40Crowned Guinea-fowlNumida coronata
  73. 2-41Tiara’d Guinea-fowlNumida mitrata
  74. 2-42Abyssinian Guinea-fowlNumida ptilorhyncha
  75. 2-43The Kiroro Guinea-fowlNumida granti
  76. 2-44Verreaux’s Guinea-fowlNumida verreauxi
  77. 2-45Crested Guinea-fowlNumida christata
  78. 2-46Pucheran’s Guinea-fowlNumida pucheran
  79. 2-47Cassin’s Guinea-fowlNumida plumifera
  80. Darwin’s Pucras PheasantPucrasia darwini
  81. Elliot’s PheasantCalophasis ellioti

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

How the set is made

Plates of Elliot’s Family of the Pheasants spread out in front of their Solander box

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, 18½ × 23½ in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
81

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