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JOHN GERARD KEULEMANS (1842-1912)
Coracopsis obscura; Coua cristata typica; Coua Verreauxii; Cuculus poliocephalus; Tylas Eduardi, var. strophiates; Xenopirostris Pollenii.
6 drawings, varying sizes, from 249 x 170mm to 266 x 183mm, pencil, watercolour and gum arabic, heightened with white, mounted, all signed 'J G Keulemans' in watercolour (lower right, lower left or lower centre), two numbered '2/3' (lower centre); four with later inscriptions in pencil identifying species, all with plate numbers in pencil lower right (some light surface soiling, not affecting images).
SIX FINE ORIGINAL STUDIES IN WATERCOLOUR BY 'THE MAJOR BIRD BOOK ILLUSTRATOR' OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY' (Jackson). The drawings appeared, engraved by Becquet, as plates 1, 44, 47, 66, 144a and 169, in Alfred Grandidier's and Alphonse Milne-Edwards' comprehensive work on the birds of Madagascar, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, Paris: 1876-1885 (volume XIII of Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar). The engraved plates closely follow the original drawings, showing the birds in their native habitat. Keulemans had been given a place on an expedition to West Africa in 1864 by Schlegel, Director of Leiden's museum of natural history. One of the present watercolours is of the rare Xenopirostris Pollenii, identified by Schlegel himself. (6)
Coracopsis obscura; Coua cristata typica; Coua Verreauxii; Cuculus poliocephalus; Tylas Eduardi, var. strophiates; Xenopirostris Pollenii.
6 drawings, varying sizes, from 249 x 170mm to 266 x 183mm, pencil, watercolour and gum arabic, heightened with white, mounted, all signed 'J G Keulemans' in watercolour (lower right, lower left or lower centre), two numbered '2/3' (lower centre); four with later inscriptions in pencil identifying species, all with plate numbers in pencil lower right (some light surface soiling, not affecting images).
SIX FINE ORIGINAL STUDIES IN WATERCOLOUR BY 'THE MAJOR BIRD BOOK ILLUSTRATOR' OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY' (Jackson). The drawings appeared, engraved by Becquet, as plates 1, 44, 47, 66, 144a and 169, in Alfred Grandidier's and Alphonse Milne-Edwards' comprehensive work on the birds of Madagascar, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, Paris: 1876-1885 (volume XIII of Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar). The engraved plates closely follow the original drawings, showing the birds in their native habitat. Keulemans had been given a place on an expedition to West Africa in 1864 by Schlegel, Director of Leiden's museum of natural history. One of the present watercolours is of the rare Xenopirostris Pollenii, identified by Schlegel himself. (6)
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