Toucan prints
Toucans and aracaris from John Gould’s monograph of the family and François Levaillant’s Histoire naturelle des Toucans. Every print is a facsimile giclée at the size of the original sheet, limited to 250.
Le Toucan
$195
Le grand Toucan à gorge rouge
$195
Le Cocan à collier jaune
$195
Le Pignancoin
$195
Le Tocard
$195
Le Toco
$195
Le grand Toucan à ventre rouge
$195
Le petit Toucan à ventre rouge
$195
L’Aracari Koulik mâle de la Guyane
$195
L’Aracari à ceinture rouge
$195
L’Aracari à ceinture rouge dans ses extreme vielesse
$195
L’Aracari à double couleurs
$195
About toucan prints
John Gould’s monograph of the toucans was one of his earliest books and the first on the family. He set the birds against plain backgrounds so that the bills carry the plate, and several were drawn by Edward Lear. Family of Toucans joins the plates of the first edition of 1834 to those of the Supplement Gould added in 1855; start with the Toco Toucan, plate 7.
The other toucans are older or quite different. Johann Michael Seligmann re-engraved a toucan after George Edwards in eighteenth-century Nuremberg. Jacques Barraband painted the toucans and araçaris of Levaillant’s book between 1801 and 1806, among them Le Toco and a red-belted araçari ‘in extreme old age’. And Jean Théodore Descourtilz, who lived in Brazil, published his Toucan Ariel in 1834, perched on a branch heavy with the fruit it eats: compare it with Gould’s Ariel Toucan, plate 11.