Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Polyplectron Germaini

Artist Josef Wolf (German, 1820 - 1899)

Artist Josef Smit (German, 1802 - 1884)

Date1870-1872

MediumLithograph, hand colored

Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Terry White

Object number2010.57.24

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionPolyplectron Germaini (Germain's Polyplectron or Germain's peacock-pheasant), a bird with brown and black speckled body and bright green spots in bands around its tail and wings. Two chicks are included; all three birds are in a clearing with grass and rocks in the distance. From "A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of Pheasants," by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915), New York: 1870-1872.