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.
2,174 prints
Parra Sinensis
$185
Lepelaar Nest
$185
Whip-poor-will
$475
Kunslee Grouse
$225
Vanellus Goensis
$185
Ooievaar
$185
House Wren
$350
Common Ptarmigan. Adults and Young
$225
Ibidorhyncha Struthersii
$185
Zee-eend (mas)
$185
Blue-Grey Flycatcher
$350
Common Ptarmigan. Winter Plumage
$225
Anser Indicus
$185
Zee-eend (fem)
$185
Yellow Throated Warbler
$350
Rock Ptarmigan
$225
Black Vulture
$185
Zomertaling (mas)
$185
Black Warrior
$725
Spitzbergen Ptarmigan
$225
Bengal Vulture
$185
Zomertaling (fem)
$185
Florida Jay
$475
White-Tail Ptarmigan. Adults in Summer
$225
Shaheen Falcon
$185
Patrijs of Veldhoen (mas)
$185
Autumnal Warbler
$350
Eggs
$225
Red-naped Falcon
$185
Patrijs of Veldhoen (fem)
$185
Nashville Warbler
$350
Eggs
$225
Saker Falcon
$185
Rotgans
$185
Black & White Creeper
$350
Generic Characters-1
$165
Lanner Falcon
$185
Bergeend (mas)
$185
Broad-winged Hawk
$725
Generic Characters-2
$165
Jugger Falcon
$185
Bergeend (Fem)
$185
Pigeon Hawk
$475
Red-Faced Ground Hornbill
$165
White-winged Red-footed Kestrel
$185
Grote Zeemeeuw
$185
Seaside Finch
$350
Cafer Ground-Hornbill
$165
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.