Macaw, Cockatoo & Amazon Parrots, Brodtmann Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1816

Name: Macaw, Cockatoo & Amazon Parrots, Brodtmann Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1816
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14304-22
Price: 605 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1816
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 44.5 × 35.9 cm (17.5 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition considering age. Light age toning, occasional foxing, and minor handling wear consistent with a print more than 200 years old. Original hand coloring remains exceptionally bright and attractive. Please review photographs carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-14304-22

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Four parrots on one plate, an original hand-colored lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, published in Lindau in 1816 as part of the Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche. The sheet is numbered "No 9" at the upper right, and each bird is lettered in German and Latin along the bottom: "(1) Der Arras. Psittacus macao", "(3) Der weisse Kakatu. Psittacus cristatus", "(2) Der gelbe brasilianische Papagay. Psittacus garouba" and "(4) Der Amazonen Papagay".

The scarlet macaw dominates the sheet at the upper left, perched on a branch with its long tail sweeping down the sheet, its red plumage set off by blue and yellow in the wings. At the upper right the white cockatoo carries a tall crest. The yellow Brazilian parrot, the garouba, perches below left in yellow and green, and the green Amazon parrot, with a blue patch on the head and a red berry in its claw, sits below right.

Brodtmann, a Swiss lithographer, worked in the first years of the lithographic process, and his animal plates are early examples of lithography in natural history. Of the four birds, the macaw, the garouba and the Amazon parrot are South American, while the cockatoo is not.

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