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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
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Reproduced from an original copy of Family of Hummingbirds, Vol. 3.
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from an original copy of Family of Hummingbirds, Vol. 3.
- 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
Two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds visit a spray of pale pink tubular flowers. The male perches on a stalk at the left, his throat glowing red; the female, without the red, hovers at a flower with her wings raised, showing the white tips of her tail. Like most plates in the book, it pairs a perched bird with one in flight, so that the throat catches the light. The Ruby-throat is the only hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America, and it was the first living hummingbird Gould ever saw, on a journey to America in 1857, after years of working from skins.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris) is plate 15 of Family of Hummingbirds, Vol. 3 by John Gould (1849–1861). 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 A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds between 1849 and 1861: five volumes with 360 hand-coloured lithographs. Most plates show two or three birds among plants, at least one of them in flight to show the colour of its feathers.
Volume 3 of five holds the coquettes, thorntails, woodstars and sheartails, racket-tails, trainbearers, sylphs, comets, sunbeams, helmetcrests and thornbills.
- Title
- Family of Hummingbirds, Vol. 3
- Published
- 1849-1861
- Format
- Imperial folio
- In our collection
- 85 prints
