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Common Ptarmigan. Winter Plumage

Lagopus mutus

Today: Rock Ptarmigan (winter plumage)

Daniel Giraud Elliot, plate 22

From Family of the Grouse

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
23½ × 19½ in, original size
Format
Folio
Paper
White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink
Archival ink
Edition
Limited to 250 prints

$225

Limited edition of 250

€200 incl. VAT in the EU

Plus $45 shipping, import duties included. Free from $500 or 3 prints.

Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.

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A facsimile of the original sheet
  • Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of Family of the Grouse, Haarlem.
  • Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
  • Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.

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Common Ptarmigan. Winter Plumage shown in a black and gold frame
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About this plate

Common Ptarmigan. Winter Plumage (Lagopus mutus) is plate 22 of Family of the Grouse by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1864–1865). Today: Rock Ptarmigan (winter plumage). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 23½ × 19½ in (60 × 49.5 cm).

About the original

Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) published A Monograph of the Tetraoninae, or Family of the Grouse in 1864 and 1865, his second monograph: 27 hand-coloured lithographs, 25 of them by Joseph Wolf and two of eggs by William S. Morgan.

Most of the species lived in North America, and Elliot wrote that many were ‘rapidly disappearing from our land’; he wanted to record their history while they could still be observed in the wild.

Title
Family of the Grouse
Published
1864-1865
Format
Folio
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
27 prints
Gies Pluim at a table in the Teylers Museum library with plates from The Birds of America
Founder Gies Pluim in the library of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, where the original is kept.

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