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

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
Visual 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.
Polyplectron Bicalcartum (Iris Polyplectron) a bird with a brown crest and body, red eye, gray head and neck, and wings with green and black spots. A second peacock is in the background; both stand on tree branches.
Polyplectron Bicalcartum
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Polyplectron Emphanum (Palawan peacock-pheasant), a bird with a green crest, red eye, white head, black belly, iridescent blue wings, and a spotted brown, black, and blue back and tail. A second peacock in the distance; both stand on logs in a grassy field.
Polyplectron Emphanum
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Two adult and eight chick Euplocomus Albo-Cristatus (White-Crested Kaleege) birds, the male with red face, white crest, deep purple-teal-black neck, wings, and tail, gray belly, and white and black back, stands on a tree branch in the foreground. The female, with red eye, and brown crest and body, stands in the midground in grass surrounded by chicks with brown bodies and black wings.
Euplocomus Albo-Cristatus
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Pucrasia Macrolopha (pucras pheasant) depicting male (foreground) and female (midground); the male has a green and yellow head, a brown belly, and back feathers that are gray, black, and tan; the female has a white neck and brown and black feathers. The birds stand in a grassy clearing.
Pucrasia Macrolopha
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Three Euplocamus Andersoni (Anderson's Pheasant) birds, with black underbody, red head, black crest, and back, wings, and tail that are black with white line patterning. One bird stands in the foreground on a rock surrounded by ferns, while two more birds stand in the distance, including one (female?) with brown plumage.
Euplocamus Andersoni
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Three Crossoptilo Mantchuricum (Mantchurian Eared Pheasant or Brown Eared-pheasant) birds with dark brown bodies, white ornamental ruffs around their heads, white backs and tails with blue tips. One stands while a second sits in grass in the foreground; a third stands on a large rock in the distance.
Crossoptilo Mantchuricum
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Two Tetraophasis Obscurus (Mou-Pin Pheasant or Verreaux's monal-partridge) birds with brown bodies, red throats outlined in a band of white, and white-tipped tails. They stand on grass with white flowers in the background.
Tetraophasis Obscurus
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Two Euplocamus Nobilis (Bornean Fire-Back or Noble Pheasant) birds, the male in the foreground has a blue head and crest, dark blue throat, wings, and back, orange belly, yellow and red back, and yellow, blue, and black tail, and stands on a tree branch. The female has a blue eye, brown head, crest, and back, white throat, and white, brown, and black chest, and sits on a tree branch. Mountains in the distance.
Euplocamus Nobilis
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
Three Euplocamus Melanotis (Black-Backed Kaleege) birds, the males with red face, black crest, neck, back, wings, and tail, and white throat, belly, and feet; the female has a red face, and brown crest and body. One male stands on a rock in the foreground, while another male and one female stand in grass in the distance; mountains in the far distance.
Euplocamus Melanotis
Josef Wolf
1870-1872
An incense container in the shape of a clutch of plover chicks huddled together in a nest with pointillist details on a warm white ground.
Incense container (kogo 香合)
Miyagawa Chozo (Makuzu Chozo) 宮川長造
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
A black robe with an embroidered badge on the front. A silver pheasant is embroidered on the badge, a motif of the 5th-rank civil official. The bottom half and the neck are bordered in a brocade applique consisting mostly of butterfly and floral designs made in green and blue thread. The front of the sleeves has blocks of magenta, grey, pink, cerulea, and pale yellow filled with different patterns including birds of paradise, lotus flowers, the eternal knot, and Buddhist swastika symbol. Black c…
Black Robe with Rank Badge of Silver Pheasant
Chinese Artist
early 19th century
A small, pale ceramic figurine of a bird. It has a rounded body covered in dark spots, pointed wings and ears, and large feet.
Bird
Native American (Cochiti, Pueblo)
undated

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