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Ptilopus Musschenbroeki, (von Rosenberg) Fruit Pigeon. J. Smit lithograph c1878.

Ptilopus Musschenbroeki, (von Rosenberg) Fruit Pigeon. J. Smit lithograph c1878.

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by Smit, Joseph

Antique print of Fruit Pigeons from the islands of Geelvink Bay and Papua New Guinea.

Original hand-coloured lithograph by one of the finest of all bird artists, John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912), for ornithologist George Dawson Rowley’s “Ornithological Miscellany” published in London between 1875 and 1878. Keulemans' beautiful compositions and exquisitely finished hand-coloured lithographs were anatomically accurate, with birds in characteristic positions and environment.

After encouragement from curator of bird collections at the Zoological Society, John Gould's colleague Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Keulemans relocated from the Netherlands to London at the age of 26. His meticulous graphic studies contributed greatly to the finest natural history illustrated books between 1867 and 1911.

Page size 315 x 250mm (approximately 12.5 x 10 inches).

Stock Number: apJSb1Price: $140.00