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Caerulean Pitta (Young), the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Caerulean Pitta (Young).

Family of the Ant Thrushes, complete set

By Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1861-1863

All 31 plates of Family of the Ant Thrushes as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 31 plates, each 13¾ × 21¼ 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 Ant Thrushes

Contents

Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1861-1863

  1. 1Caerulean Pitta (Young)
  2. 2Caerulean Pitta
  3. 3Nepal Pitta
  4. 4Blue-Winged Pitta
  5. 5Angola Pitta
  6. 6Bengal Pitta
  7. 7Vigors Pitta
  8. 8Fairy Pitta
  9. 9Noisy Pitta
  10. 10Elegant Pitta
  11. 11Irene Pitta
  12. 12Great Pitta
  13. 13Blue Pitta
  14. 14Graceful Pitta
  15. 15Purple Pitta
  16. 16Red-Breasted Pitta
  17. 17Celebes Pitta
  18. 18Red-Necked Pitta
  19. 19Crimson-Breasted Pitta
  20. 20Gray’s Pitta
  21. 21Macklot’s Pitta
  22. 22Baud’s Pitta
  23. 23Rainbow Pitta
  24. 24Forsten’s Pitta
  25. 25Black-Headed Pitta
  26. 26Muller’s Pitta
  27. 27New-Guinea Pitta
  28. 28Hooded Pitta
  29. 29Blue-tailed Pitta
  30. 30Pitta Schwaneri
  31. 31Pitta Boschii

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

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.

Title
Family of the Ant Thrushes
Published
1861-1863
Format
Folio, 13¾ × 21¼ in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
31

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