Stitchbird by John Keulemans from Buller’s Birds of NZ

Fine Art Print

Image size in millimetres: 300 x 420

Hihi, Stitchbird, Pogonornis cincta (Male and Female). Noted for his drawings and lithographs of birds Johannes Keulemans’s paintings of NZ native birds were the basis for the famous prints in the well-known book Buller’s Birds of New Zealand. For each illustration he first produced a drawing for Buller’s inspection, then a coloured painting, which served as the basis for each lithograph. You are buying an extremely high quality modern reprint that shows how modern high resolution scanning combined with the latest giclee printing technology can breathe new life into an artwork that was buried in the archive for decades.