Hornbill Gallery

Oriental pied-hornbill, Anthracoceros albirostris

Oriental pied-hornbill, Anthracoceros albirostris (White-beaked hornbill, Buceros albirostris). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806. Date:

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Beak of a toucan, Ramphastos species

Beak of a toucan, Ramphastos species, and unknown bird (Cassowary species?). Bec d'un toucan, bec d'un certain oiseau a nez de rhiniceros.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Johann Ludwig Colve from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by J.P. Breyn. Date:

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Rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros, near threatened

Rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros, near threatened. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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