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Parrots and Parakeets

By David Seth-Smith

Incredibly detailed scans of 20 hand coloured antique prints of parrots and parakeets

NEW BENEFIT ! This CD has even higher resolution images - 200dpi resolution instead of 150dpi on most of our other CDs

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history

 

$59.99 - order #CD018

To order, press the order link in the menu at the top of this page

Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

 

To buy the original antique prints click here

 

Benefits

  • Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

  • Study them before investing in the original prints

  • Illustrate educational projects

  • Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

  • Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

  • Scans are of the original antique prints

  • Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

  • Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

  • Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

  • Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

 

 

Examples of the antique prints on the CD

These are small images for display on this web page. The scans on the CD are much bigger (same size as original antique print) and far higher quality
Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith
Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith
Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith
Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith Antique print: picture of parakeets / parrots by David Seth Smith

Contents of the CD

 

The CD contains:

 

1. Incredibly detailed scans of 20 antique prints of parrots and parakeets in natural settings including all the ones on this linked page . The scans are much more detailed and higher quality than those on this web site. When printed on a typical ink jet printer they are a very close match to the original antique prints.

 

2. A full contents list giving the common and latin names and country of origin:


Red Collared & Foster's Lorikeets - Trichoglossus rubritorques & forsteni - Australia & Indonesia
Perfect & Musk Lorikeets - Trichoglossus ornatus - Indonesia Celebes & Togian Isles)
Ornate Lorikeet - Glossopsittacus concinnus & Psitteuteles euteles - Australia, Timore, Bali etc
Red Headed & Black Headed Conures - Conurus rubrolarvatus & nenday - Paraguay & Colombia
Brown Throated & Cactus Conures - Conurus aeruginosus & cactorum - Brazil
Lesser Patagonian Conure - Conurus patagonicus - Uruguay & Argentina
White Eared & Pearly Conure - Pyrrhura leucotis & perlata - Brazil
White Winged & Tui Parakeets - Brotogerys virescens & tui - Amazonia, Brazil & Colombia
Nicobar & Blythe's Nicobar Parakeets - Palaeornis caniceps & nicobarica - Nicobar Islands
Barraband's Parakeet - Polytelis barrab&i - Australia
Golden Backed & Sclater's Hanging Parakeets - Loriculus sclateri & chrysonotus - Sula Islands & Phillipines
Yellow Rumped & Pennant's Parakeets - Platycercus elegans & flaveolus - Australia
Brown's Parakeet - Platycercus browni - Australia
Barnard's & Bauer's Parakeets - Barnardius barnardi & zonarius - Australia
Yellow & Red Vented Blue Bonnets - Psephotus xanthorrhous & haematorrhous - Australia
Golden Shouldered Parakeet - Psephotus chrysopterygius - Australia
Many Coloured Parakeet - Psephotus multicolor - Australia
Splendid & Turquoisine Parakeets - Neophema pulchella & splendida - Australia
Golden Fronted NZ & Antipodes Island Parakeets - Cyanorhamphus unicolor & auriceps - New Zealand & Antipodes Is.
The Varied Lorikeet - Ptilosclera versicolor - Australia

 

3. An enjoyable screen saver featuring all the prints

 

4. A scan of of the frontispiece showing the date the prints were made.

 

 

Information

This CD contains very detailed scans of original antique prints from the first and only edition of a work on parakeets (small parrots) by David Seth Smith.

David Seth Smith's work on parakeets was one of the last fine bird books illustrated with hand-coloring, and was published in 1903.

The artists who drew the illustrations included some of the best bird artists, such as F.W. Frohawk, H. Goodchild, Henrik Grönvold, and W.E. Renaut.

The lithographs were printed lithographically (i.e. with printing stones, a process which is too expensive these days) by Mintern Brothers (famous for printing many of John Gould's bird prints) and Bale & Danielsson, and then colored by hand.

Date

The prints were original antique prints made in the 1903

Source

Parakeets by David Seth-Smith

Print method

Hand coloured lithograph

Condition

The prints were in excellent condition. The colors were beautifully varied and intense and scanned very well

Size

The prints measured 10 by 6¼ inches (25 by 16 cm)

How to order

Please note the order number for this CD which is shown at the top of the page. Then click on the Order button at the top or the Order link at the bottom of this page.