Rare-Antique Print-BLUE PITTA-BORNEAN BANDED-ELEGANT-Trap-Smit-Schlegel-1863

Medium: Lithograph with original hand coloring and heightened with gom on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 22.5 x 30.5 cm (8.86 x 12.01 inch). Image size: 15 x 20 cm. (5.91 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

BLUE PITTA-BORNEAN BANDED-ELEGANT | BOX-BIRDS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: De vogels van Nederlandsch Indie, H. Schlegel, Leiden, 1863-1866. An archived version is available at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Reference: DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.14457.

Biography engraver: P.W.M. Trap was a 19th-century Dutch printer and lithographer based in Leiden, active in scientific and zoological publications, notably for the Leiden Natural History Museum.

Biography artist: Joseph Smit (1836-1929), Dutch zoological illustrator, renowned for his work with Schlegel and others, especially ornithological plates, known for exceptional detail and lifelike rendering. The author Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) was a German Zoologist. He was working for the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden since 1825. Since 1828 he was the conservator. From 1860 until his death he was director. He mostly studied the animals of the Netherlands and its colonial possessions.