Description
Description of Daniel Elliot's Birds of Paradise
These fine, folio-sized, hand-colored lithographs come from Daniel Elliot's work entitled A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise. Elliot was influential in the scientific world of the nineteenth century as a founder of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and as the curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago. He took his wealth and scientific knowledge, combined them with Joseph Wolf's artistic abilities, and produced this remarkable ornithological collection in 1873. There were likely no more than one hundred complete folio sets of this work produced. These rare lithographs are on heavy woven paper that measures ~ 18 1/4" by 23 1/4".