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Great Skua

John Gould, plate 78

From Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
22 × 15 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 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 Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5, 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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About this plate

Great Skua is plate 78 of Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 by John Gould (1862–1873). This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 22 × 15 in (56 × 38 cm).

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published The Birds of Great Britain himself between 1862 and 1873, in 25 parts and 750 copies: 367 hand-coloured lithographs, many showing nests and young. Joseph Wolf, Henry Constantine Richter and William Matthew Hart worked Gould’s sketches up into the finished plates.

Volume 5 of five holds the Natatores, the swimming birds: geese, swans and ducks, grebes and divers, the auks, among them the extinct Great Auk, and cormorants, gulls, terns, skuas and petrels.

Title
Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5
Published
1862-1873
Format
Imperial folio
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
78 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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