Kea & Kākā from History of the Birds of NZ by John Keulemans

Fine Art Print

Print size in millimetres: 420 x 300

Kea, Nestor notabilis and Kākā, Nestor meridionalis. Print of the original hand-coloured lithograph (Plate 6 from A history of the birds of New Zealand, 1873).  This is a simply brilliant print that pops with colour, an extremely high quality reprint that shows how modern high resolution scanning combined with the latest giclee printing technology can breathe new life into an artwork that has been buried in the archive for decades. John Keulemans was a well respected Dutch artist of the nineteenth century. Noted for his drawings and lithographs of birds - his paintings of NZ birds are the famous prints from the classic NZ book Buller's Birds. Keulemans never visited New Zealand, but drew from stuffed birds and specimens provided by Buller. For each illustration he first produced a drawing for Buller’s inspection, then a coloured painting, which served as the basis for each lithograph.