Birds depicted: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor and Tanagra Chrysogaster.
Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father’s work Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles .
65-87552. 65. Descourtilz, Ornithologie Bresilienne: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor, Tanagra Chrysogaster
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Jean Theodore Descourtilz, Ornithologie Bresilienne: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor, Tanagra Chrysogaster. Chromolithograph, from Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, c.1852-56..
Chromolithgraph plate printed in colour and finished by hand.
Overall sheet size: 602mm by 432mm.