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Musophaga Leucotis

Name: White-cheeked Turaco Schlegel Print
Brand: Heritage Prints
SKU: Schlegel-Toerako-05
Price: 235.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Today: White-cheeked Turaco

Hermann Schlegel

From De Toerako's

The print

Technique: Facsimile giclée
Sheet: 22½ × 28¼ in, original size
Format: Elephant folio
Paper: White etching paper, 270 g/m²
Ink: Archival ink
Edition: Limited to 250 prints

$235

Limited edition of 250

€210 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.

Free shipping from $500 or 3 prints, otherwise $45. Import duties included.
Ships within 3 to 5 business days, insured with FedEx
Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
Returns within 14 days

A facsimile of the original sheet

Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of De Toerako's, 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.

How your print is made

Musophaga Leucotis shown in a black and gold frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Musophaga Leucotis shown in a dark wood frame — Shown framed. Frame not included.

Ready for your framer

Try three frame styles to see how the print hangs on a wall. Your print arrives unframed, as the full sheet with its margins, plate number and engraved caption.

About this plate

Musophaga Leucotis is from De Toerako's by Hermann Schlegel (1860). Today the species is known as the White-cheeked Turaco. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 22½ × 28¼ in (57 × 72 cm).

About the original

Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884), director of the natural history museum in Leiden, made De Toerako’s with Gerardus Frederik Westerman, a founder of the Amsterdam zoo Natura Artis Magistra. Published in 1860, it shows all 17 turaco species then known at life size, in hand-coloured lithographs after Schlegel’s drawings, made where possible from living birds in the zoo.

The society dedicated it to King Willem III and never sold it: copies were presented to members and to scientists it wished to honour.