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.

Nucifraga Hemispila
$185

Garrulus Striatus
$185

Garrulus Bispecularis
$185

Garrulus Lanceolatus
$185

Garrulus Lanceolatus
$185

Pica Erythrorhyncha
$185

Pica Vagabunda
$185

Pica Senensis
$185

Buceros Cavatus
$185

Coccothraustes Icterioides
$185

Bucco Grandis
$185

Picus Occipitalis
$185

Picus Squamatus
$185

Picus Shorii
$185

Picus Hyperythrus
$185

Picus Mahrattenisis
$185

Picus Brunnifrons
$185

Cuculus Sparverioides
$185

Cuculus Himalayanus
$185

Pomatorhinus Erythrogenys
$185

Cinnyris Gouldiae
$185

Vinago Sphenura
$185

Vinago Militaris
$185

Columba Leuconota
$185

Lophophorus Impeyanus
$185

Lophophorus Impeyanus
$185

Tragopan Satyrus
$185

Tragopan Hastingsii
$185

Tragopan Hastingsii
$185

Tragopan Hastingsii
$185

Phasianus Albo-Cristatus
$185

Phasianus Albo-Cristatus
$185

Phasianus Staceii
$185

Phainus Pucrasia
$185

Phainus Pucrasia
$185

Perdix Chukar
$185

Otis Nigriceps
$185

Otis Himalayanus
$185

Otis Himalayanus
$185

Otis Himalayanus
$185

Totanus Glotoides
$185

Parra Sinensis
$185

Vanellus Goensis
$185

Ibidorhyncha Struthersii
$185

Anser Indicus
$185

Black Vulture
$185

Bengal Vulture
$185

Shaheen Falcon
$185
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.
