Jean Théodore Descourtilz
1796-1855, French naturalist and artist
Jean Théodore Descourtilz was a naturalist and artist with a love for the wilds of Brazil.
Brilliant Birds of Brazil has 60 hand-coloured folio lithographs, most of them showing a single species. So few copies were made that he is thought to have coloured each plate himself.
The work
60 prints from one work. Every sheet is a Folio of 11½ × 17¾ in, from the originals in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
All 60 prints by Descourtilz
60 prints
