Animals, Birds, Toucans, Tukane, Perée, after Barraband
"Le Toco N. 2"
Stipple engraving by Jacques Louis Perée
After the painting by Jacques Barraband (1768-1809)
Extremely fine original hand coloring
Published in "Histoire naturelle des oiseux de paradis et des rolliers,
suivi de celles des toucans et des barbus" By François Levaillant.
Paris, 1801-1806.
The original hand coloring is exquisite.
Grand folio.
59,7 x 41 cm (ca. 23.5 x 16.1")
Right image: "Le Tocan No. 3"
Stipple engraving by Jacques Louis Perée
After the painting by Jacques Barraband (1768-1809)
Extremely fine original hand coloring
Published in "Histoire naturelle des oiseux de paradis et des rolliers,
suivi de celles des toucans et des barbus" By François Levaillant.
Paris, 1801-1806.
The original hand coloring is exquisite. Only very minor
traces of age and use. There is a faint impression of print from the
bird on the opposite page of the book.
Grand folio.
59.7 x 41 cm (ca. 23.5 x 41")
The following paragraph refers to both prints described above:
Since the beaks and tails of the toucans, large as they are, bordered close to the paper edges, extension of margins was needed. In order to match the paper of the print, paper fibrillation was executed. This is an extraordinary technique to produce paper fibers, which are then professionally meshed with the existing print paper to extend it without visible transition. The result is a wider margin of the print. In order to give the widened prints support they were laid down on the thinnest of China paper.
Keywords:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Infraorder: Ramphastides
Family: Ramphastidae
arboreal, eggs, nests; tree hollows, toucan bill; hatch, pairs or small flocks.
