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
White-tailed Velvet-breast
$185
Blue-fronted Lancebill
$185
Green-fronted Lancebill
$185
Buffon’s Plumeleteer
$185
Golden-tailed Plumeleteer
$185
Blue-breasted Plumeleteer
$185
Emerald-fronted Hummingbird
$185
Schreibers’ Hummingbird
$185
Green-crowned Brilliant
$185
Jameson’s Brilliant
$185
Otera Brilliant
$185
Leadbeater’s Brilliant
$185
Black-capped Hummingbird
$185
Brazilian Wood Nymph
$185
Waterton’s Wood Nymph
$185
Cayenne Wood Nymph
$185
Refulgent Wood Nymph
$185
Tschudi’s Wood Nymph
$185
Black-banded Wood Nymph
$185
Veraguan Wood Nymph
$185
Columbian Wood Nymph
$185
Green-crowned Wood Nymph
$185
Brazilian Wood Nymph
$185
Wagler’s Wood Nymph
$185
Jardine’s Panoplites
$185
Yellow-fronted Panoplites
$185
Matthews’ Panoplites
$185
Jacobin
$185
Great Jacobin
$185
Pied Jacobin
$185
Snow-cap
$185
Tufted Coquette
$185
Gould’s Coquette
$185
Frilled Coquette
$185
Great-crested Coquette
$185
De Lattres’s Coquette
$185
Spangled Coquette
$185
Festive Coquette
$185
Peruvian Coquette
$185
Racket-tail
$185
Popelaires Thorn-tail
$185
Langsdorff’s Thorn-tail
$185
Convers’ Thorn-tail
$185
Letitia
$185
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
$185
Purple-throated Hummingbird
$185
Little Hummingbird
$185
Costa’s Calypte
$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.