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.
Azara’s Araçari
$185
Peacock Groove Bill Aracari
$185
Black-billed Hill Toucan
$185
Black-throated Groove-bill
$185
Blue-banded Groove-bill
$185
Blue-throated Groove-bill, Supplement, page 101
$185
Chestnut-billed Groove-bill
$185
Citron-breasted Toucan
$185
Double-banded Araçari
$185
Doubtful Toucan
$185
Duchess of Leuchtenberg’s Araçari
$185
Gould’s Toucanet
$185
Hooded Hill Toucan
$185
Inca Toucan
$185
Laminated Hill Toucan
$185
Prince Maximilian’s Araçari
$185
Red-rumped Araçari
$185
Short-billed Toucan
$185
Sturm’s Araçari
$185
White-banded Groove-bill
$185
Yellow-billed Araçari
$185
Culminated Toucan
$185
Cuvier’s Toucan
$185
Red-Billed Toucan
$185
Lemon-Rumped Toucan
$185
Osculant Toucan
$185
Toco Toucan
$185
Sharp-billed Toucan
$185
Swainson’s Toucan
$185
Sulphur and White Breasted Toucan
$185
Ariel Toucan
$185
Red-Breasted Toucan
$185
Cayenne Aracari
$185
Chestnut-Eared Aracari
$185
Royal Aracari
$185
Many-Banded Aracari
$185
Double-collared Aracari
$185
Banded Aracari
$185
Green Aracari
$185
Humboldt’s Aracari
$185
Lettered Aracari
$185
Spotted Bill Aracari
$185
Natterers Aracari
$185
Reinwardts Aracari
$185
Koulik Aracari
$185
Langdorfs Aracari
$185
Curl-Crested Aracari
$185
Grey-Breasted Aracari
$185
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.