Bird prints
Bird plates by eight naturalists, from Audubon’s life-size The Birds of America to Gould’s hummingbirds, Elliot’s pheasants and Levaillant’s parrots, first published between the 1740s and the 1880s. Each print is a facsimile giclée made from the originals, at the size of the original sheet, in a numbered edition of 250.
Gingi Hornbill
$165
Black-and-White Hornbill
$165
Black-and-White-Tail Hornbill
$165
Yellow-Billed Hornbill
$165
Hemprich’s Hornbill
$165
Monteiro’s Hornbill
$165
Jungle Grey Hornbill
$165
Ceylonese Grey Hornbill
$165
Red-Billed Hornbill
$165
Von der Decken’s Hornbill
$165
Hartlaub’s Hornbill
$165
Cassin’s Pygmy Hornbill
$165
Darwin’s Pucras Pheasant
$225
Elliot’s Pheasant
$225
Generec characters I
$225
Generic Characters II
$225
Blackshouldered Peafowl
$225
Javan Peafowl
$225
Common Polyplectron
$225
Iris Polyplectron
$225
Germain’s Polyplectron
$225
Napoleon’s Polyplectron
$225
Sumatran Polyplectron
$225
Gray’s Argus Pheasant
$225
Ocellated Argus Pheasant. Many-spotted Argus Pheasant.
$225
Hodgson’s Eared Pheasant
$225
Drouyn’s Eared Pheasant
$225
Mantchurian Eared Pheasant
$225
Pallas’s Eared Pheasant
$225
Himalayan Monal Pheasant
$225
De l’Huys’s Monal
$225
Sclater’s Monal
$225
Mou-pin Pheasant
$225
Horned Tragopan
$225
Black-headed Tragopan
$225
Temminck’s Tragopan
$225
Cabot’s Tragopan
$225
Blyth’s Tragopan
$225
Pucras Pheasant
$225
Duvaucel’s Pucras Pheasant
$225
Buff-spotted Pucrasia
$225
Wild Turkey
$225
Mexican Turkey
$225
Ocellated Turkey
$225
Shaw’s Pheasant
$225
Common Pheasant
$225
Yark and Pheasant
$225
Mongolian Pheasant
$225
About bird prints
Our bird plates cover more than a century of printmaking, and the technique changes with the period. The oldest are copper engravings: Johann Michael Seligmann’s German versions of the birds of Mark Catesby and George Edwards, published in Nuremberg from 1749 (one of them shows a dodo beside a guinea pig), and Cornelius Nozeman’s Nederlandsche Vogelen, begun in 1770. Between 1801 and 1806 Jacques Barraband’s paintings of parrots and toucans for François Levaillant were engraved in stipple.
The largest sheets are Audubon’s: Robert Havell engraved and aquatinted The Birds of America in London between 1827 and 1838, opening with the Wild Turkey. Most of the other books are lithographs, among them those of John Gould, who worked with a team of artists, and the monographs of Daniel Giraud Elliot, drawn by Joseph Wolf, Joseph Smit and John Gerrard Keulemans. What is The Birds of America? tells how Audubon’s book was made.