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Pitta iris

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Title

Pitta iris

Date

1842

Contributor

Gould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)
Richter, Henry Constantine , 1821-1902 (artist)

Description

Drawing depicting: Pitta iris -- Rainbow Pitta

Note

Hand-colored lithograph; at head of sheet: "1243 / 15/-" (Sotheran price). Quite different from the image on Gould 1147, 1148, 1180 and 2019 which was presumably intended for the unfinished Monograph of the Pittidae.

Extent

Full sheet

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration
Pitta iris

Gould number

1121

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18962

Call number

Ellis Aves H141

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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