Adorn your home with this enchanting Gould Hummingbirds Pl. 55A, Grey Stripetail | Published by Oppenheimer Editions!
Printed with archival pigments on rag watercolor paper, this modern facsimile print wonderfully captures the color and detail of Gould’s original design. Displayed as a standalone centerpiece or part of a grouping, this hummingbird print will elevate any environment!
About the Family of Hummingbirds
Considered John Gould’s masterpiece in both breadth and beauty, Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming Birds (1849 -1861) comprises 418 plates. Depicted and lithographed on stone by artists John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter and William Matthew Hart, each plate exquisitely portrays these delicate, evocatively colored birds with the flowers indigenous to their native habitat. Strong botanical elements add a dimension not found in other bird folios while the use of gold leaf, transparent oil colors, watercolors, lacquers, and gum arabic are combined to capture the iridescent, jewel-like quality of birds.
The Oppenheimer Editions publication of Family of Hummingbirds makes John Gould’s 19th-century masterpiece available as fine art prints in a limited edition of 200. The breadth and beauty of this monograph on the family Trochilidae are captured as modern facsimile prints.
Experimental hand-colored color lithograph on tissue with gold leaf added to one hummingbird’s tail.
At the time of its publication, the Family of Hummingbirds was the most comprehensive illustrated folio on hummingbirds.
A complete set of John Gould’s Family of Hummingbirds folio
About John Gould
19th-century British artist John Gould enjoyed a prolific publishing career that lasted over half a century and oversaw the issuance of more than a dozen folios examining birds from all over the world. Gould recruited the talents of natural history illustrators including Edward Lear in order to create his luscious folios. Among Gould’s best-known folios are the monumental Family of Humming Birds, Birds of Europe, Birds of Great Britain, and the Family of Toucans.
About Oppenheimer Editions
Established in 1999, our publishing company Oppenheimer Editions was developed in order to produce modern facsimiles of historic works of art. Marrying cutting-edge digital printing technologies with canonical works of art, Oppenheimer Editions has partnered with prestigious museums to make their holdings accessible to the public as fine art prints. Works from the New-York Historical Society’s unrivaled collections of John James Audubon’s watercolors and the Hudson River School paintings are examples of art that otherwise would be unobtainable.
Among the institutional collections we have partnered with are the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Our Oppenheimer Editions prints are not mere reproductions. Rather, they are limited-edition fine art prints made with the finest quality archival pigments on rag watercolor paper and executed to exacting standards.
For more information about Gould Hummingbirds Pl. 55A, Grey Stripetail | Published by Oppenheimer Editions, email us at [email protected] or check out our articles John Gould’s Family of Hummingbirds Lithographs and The Alchemy of Nature – Using Gold in Natural History Art.