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Musophaga Albicristata

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.
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  • 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 Albicristata shown in a black and gold frame
Shown framed. Frame not included.

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About this plate

Musophaga Albicristata is from De Toerako's by Hermann Schlegel (1860). 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.

Title
De Toerako's
Published
1860
Format
Elephant folio
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
In our collection
16 prints
Portrait of Hermann Schlegel seated in a chair
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884).

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