Tetraophasis Obscurus
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 number2010.57.27
DescriptionTwo 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. From "A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of Pheasants," by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915), New York: 1870-1872.
