Hummingbird prints
Hummingbirds from John Gould’s Family of Hummingbirds (1849–1861), in which most plates show two or three birds among plants, at least one of them in flight. A few come from John James Audubon’s The Birds of America and Jean Théodore Descourtilz’s birds of Brazil. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, limited to 250.
291 prints
Throated Hummingbird
$475
Xantus Hummingbird
$185
Colibri-Topaze
$165
Mangrove Humming Bird
$350
Puce-throated Hummingbird
$185
Oiseau Mouche Chatoyant
$165
Ruff-necked Hummingbird
$350
Saw-bill
$185
Oiseau Mouche Hirondelle
$165
Columbian Humming Bird
$350
Spix’s Saw-bill
$185
Oiseau Mouche Rubis Topaze
$165
Sickle Bill
$185
Oiseau Mouche très petit
$165
Condamine’s Sickle Bill
$185
Oiseau Mouche à Collier
$165
Hairy Hermit (1)
$185
Oiseau Mouche à deux Huppes
$165
Mazeppa Hermit
$185
Allied Hermit (1)
$185
Lanceolate Hermit
$185
Black-tailed Hermit
$185
Dohrn’s Hermit
$185
Rucker’s Hermit
$185
Fraser’s Hermit
$185
White-tailed Barbed-throat
$185
Fawn-tailed Barbed-throat
$185
Sooty Barbed-throat
$185
Eurynome Hermit
$185
Cayenne Hermit
$185
Allied Hermit (2)
$185
Mexican Hermit
$185
Train-bearing Hermit
$185
De Filippi’s Hermit
$185
Hairy Hermit (2)
$185
D’Osery’s Hermit
$185
Pallid Hermit
$185
Bourcier’s Hermit
$185
Guy’s Hermit
$185
Yaraquian Hermit
$185
Pretre’s Hermit
$185
Sallé’s Hermit
$185
Middle-sized Hermit
$185
Longuemare’s Hermit
$185
Amaura Hermit
$185
Green-tailed Hermit
$185
Southern Hermit
$185
Adolph’s Hermit
$185
About hummingbird prints
Hummingbirds were John Gould’s passion, and his monograph of the family has five volumes with 360 hand-coloured lithographs. Our prints come from the first four, in his order: the sawbills, sicklebills and hermits of volume 1; the sabrewings, topazes, hillstars, mangoes and jacobins of volume 2, ending with the Snow-cap; the coquettes, racket-tails, trainbearers, comets and thornbills of volume 3; and in volume 4 the Ruby and Topaz, the Giant Hummingbird, the Sword-bill and the puff-legs. Start with the Crimson Topaz or the Marvellous Hummingbird. All of them are on Family of Hummingbirds, and What books did John Gould publish? sets it among his other works.
The other plates come from two very different books. Jean Théodore Descourtilz, who lived in Brazil, drew his hummingbirds at the flowers they feed on, in Oiseaux brillans du Brésil (1834). Audubon’s four hummingbirds, the ruby-throated hummingbird of plate 47 among them, share the large sheet of his eagles.