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Short-billed Smicrornis

Today: Weebill

John Gould, plate 103

From The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
15 × 22 in, original size
Format
Imperial folio
Paper
White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink
Archival ink
Edition
Limited to 250 prints

$185

Limited edition of 250

€165 incl. VAT in the EU

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Reproduced from an original copy of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2.

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A facsimile of the original sheet
  • Photographed from an original copy of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2.
  • 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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Short-billed Smicrornis shown in a black and gold frame
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About this plate

Short-billed Smicrornis is plate 103 of The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 by John Gould (1840–1848). Today the species is known as the Weebill. This facsimile is made from the original and printed at the size of the original sheet, 15 × 22 in (38 × 56 cm).

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published The Birds of Australia between 1840 and 1848: seven volumes with 600 hand-coloured lithographs, the first comprehensive survey of the continent’s birds. Gould and his wife Elizabeth collected in Australia from 1838; she drew 84 plates before her death in 1841, and H. C. Richter worked most of the rest up from her drawings.

Volume 2 of seven: owlet-nightjars, frogmouths and nightjars, swifts and swallows, kingfishers, woodswallows and pardalotes, then crow-shrikes, cuckoo-shrikes, whistlers, fantails and flycatchers.

Title
The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2
Published
1840-1848
Format
Imperial folio
In our collection
104 prints
Photograph of John Gould standing beside a table
John Gould (1804-1881).

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