Parrot prints
Parrots and macaws from François Levaillant’s Histoire naturelle des Perroquets (1801–1805), painted by Jacques Barraband, with parakeets by John Gould and Audubon’s Carolina Parrot, a bird now extinct. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, limited to 250.
64 prints
Carolina Parrot
$725
Great Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
L’Ara Macao
$195
Perroquet à Ventre bleu
$165
Grey-headed Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Maracana Tapiré
$195
Perruche à Gorge variée
$165
Malacca Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Canga
$195
Perruche-Guïaruba
$165
Mrs. Layard’s Parakeet
$185
L’Ara Rauna
$195
Nicobar Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Militaire
$195
Philippine Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
L’Ara Tricolor
$195
Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
Le grand Ara militaire
$195
Slaty-headed Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Macavouanne
$195
The Earl of Derby’s Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Maracana, mâle
$195
Blossom-headed Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara Maracana
$195
Burmese Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara gris à Trompe
$195
Bonaparte’s Parrakeet
$185
L’Ara noir a Trompe
$195
Blue-winged Parrakeet
$185
Tête del Ara noir à Trompe
$195
Allied Parrakeet
$185
Perruche Ara pavouane
$195
Little Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
Perruche Ara pavouane tapiré
$195
Perruche Ara, à gorge variée
$195
Perruche Ara, a bandeau rouge
$195
Perruche Ara, Guarouba mâle
$195
Perruche Ara, Guarouba femelle
$195
Perruche Ara, Guarouba dans son jeune âge
$195
Perruche Emeraude
$195
Perruche à rose (mâle)
$195
Le Jeune âge de la Perruche à collier rose (mâle)
$195
Perruche à tête bleue (mâle)
$195
Perruche à tête bleue
$195
Perruche à tête bleue
$195
Surnommée L’Arlequine
$195
La Perruche Omnicolore
$195
La Perruche Omnicolore
$195
About parrot prints
Most of the parrots on this page were painted by Jacques Barraband, who had trained at the Gobelins tapestry works and painted for the Sèvres porcelain factory. For Levaillant’s book of parrots his watercolours were engraved in stipple, inked in several colours on one plate, ‘à la poupée’, and finished by hand, with every feather drawn in fine parallel lines. The macaws open the book, from L’Ara Macao to L’Ara Militaire, followed by long runs of parakeets such as La Perruche Omnicolore. Who was Jacques Barraband? tells his story.
The parakeets and racket-tailed parrots of John Gould come from the sixth volume of The Birds of Asia, where they share the volume with woodpeckers, barbets and pigeons. Jean Théodore Descourtilz adds three parrots of Brazil, drawn where he found them, and Audubon’s Carolina Parrot of plate 26 shows a flock feeding together, as he saw them.