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.
Great Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
Grey-headed Parrakeet
$185
Malacca Parrakeet
$185
Mrs. Layard’s Parakeet
$185
Nicobar Parrakeet
$185
Philippine Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
Racket-tailed Parrot
$185
Slaty-headed Parrakeet
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The Earl of Derby’s Parrakeet
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Blossom-headed Parrakeet
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Burmese Parrakeet
$185
Bonaparte’s Parrakeet
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Blue-winged Parrakeet
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Allied Parrakeet
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Little Racket-tailed Parrot
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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.