Description:
Haast's Kiwi, Apteryx haasti.
Hand coloured lithograph
From:
Walter Lawry Buller's Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand, 1905.
Artist:
John Gerard Keulemans
Addional Notes:
The Supplement was published "for the subscribers" by the author in London, 1905.
There are two volumes containing the following colour plates:
Vol. 1: Haast's Kiwi, Southern Megapode and chick, Hutton's Rail, Sunday-Island Petrel, Heads of Albatroses.
Vol. 2: Auckland Island Merganser, Rufous-faced Owl, Belted Kaka and Variety, Antipodes-Island Parrakeet, Island Wren, North-Island Wren, Chatham-Island Warbler and Chatham-Island Robin.
The 12 plates are hand-coloured, after the pattern drawn by J.G.Keulemans, by the Misses Dora Louise, Daisy Madeline, and Sylvia Rosamund Bowdler-Sharpe, and Mr. G. Edwards.
The Supplements were limited to 500 sets.
Display &
Framing Notes:
Do not hang in direct sunlight.
This print should be framed with acid free archival matting and archival glass.
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