By Hermann Schlegel, 1860
All 16 plates of De Toerako's as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.
Limited to 50 sets, each numbered and embossed.
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De Toerako's
Hermann Schlegel, 1860
The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), director of the natural history museum in Leiden, made De Toerako’s with Gerardus Frederik Westerman, a founder of the Amsterdam zoo Natura Artis Magistra. Published in 1860, it shows all 17 turaco species then known at life size, in hand-coloured lithographs after Schlegel’s drawings, made where possible from living birds in the zoo.
The society dedicated it to King Willem III and never sold it: copies were presented to members and to scientists it wished to honour.
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