Lydekker Huia

Print description

Description:

 

Flycatcher Fantail.
Hand-coloured engraving. Printed on hand woven, fleur de lis watermarked, laid paper. This print is not watermarked

From:

 

John Latham's, A General History of Birds,
1821-28.

Artist:

 

John Latham

Addional Notes:

 

Dr. John Latham was the pre-eminent ornithologist of his day. Known as the father of Australian and New Zealand ornithology, he was the first to describe, and to name scientifically, a large number of New Zealand birds. Both the specimens and the drawings collected by the Forsters in the New Zealand region during Cook's second voyage, together with those specimens collected during Cook's first voyage were used by Latham when writing his General Synopsis of Birds (1781-1785). The Synopsis was limited to 500 copies.

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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