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Red-Backed Halcyon

Halcyon pyrrhopygia

Today: Red-backed Kingfisher

John Gould, plate 22

From The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2

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.

Reproduced from an original copy of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2.

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A facsimile of the original sheet

Photographed from an original copy of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2.
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

Red-Backed Halcyon shown in a black and gold frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Red-Backed Halcyon shown in a dark wood frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

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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

Red-Backed Halcyon (Halcyon pyrrhopygia) is plate 22 of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 by John Gould (1840–1848). Today the species is known as the Red-backed Kingfisher. 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

John Gould (1804-1881) published The Birds of Australia between 1840 and 1848: seven volumes with 600 hand-coloured lithographs, the first comprehensive survey of the continent’s birds. Gould and his wife Elizabeth collected in Australia from 1838; she drew 84 plates before her death in 1841, and H. C. Richter worked most of the rest up from her drawings.

Volume 2 of seven: owlet-nightjars, frogmouths and nightjars, swifts and swallows, kingfishers, woodswallows and pardalotes, then crow-shrikes, cuckoo-shrikes, whistlers, fantails and flycatchers.

Title: The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2
Published: 1840-1848
Format: Imperial folio
In our collection: 104 prints