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Alcide Charles Orbigny was a French naturalist well known for some of the best natural history works ever produced. He was widely travelled and after a trip to South America returned with thousands of specimens. They were meticulously drawn and engraved by some of the best wildlife artists of the time such as Blanchard, Travies, Oudart and Pretre.
Here are some fine art prints of the best ones for you to choose from.
Fine art print.Features a cockerel or rooster (Gallus domesticus). Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features D’Urville’s birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera urvilliana, now Ornithoptera primus urvillianus). Found in tropical Cape York peninsula in Australia. Considered endangered, and threatened by their beauty. Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have ..
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Fine art print.Features a morpho butterfly and other butterflies. The name morpho, meaning changed or modified, is also an epithet of aphrodite and venus, goddesses of love.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a blue lobster.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a mantis shrimp (stomatopod). They may reach 38 cm (15 in). Their strike is so rapid, even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to stun or kill the prey.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefull..
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Fine art print.Features a sea horse and flying fish.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a tui (prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) bird of new zealand. The tui sings a most beautiful, melodious song.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features an indian elephant (elephas maximus indicus). This is one of three recognised subspecies of the asian elephant and native to mainland asia.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a european bee-eater bird, (merops apiaster). It breeds in southern europe and in parts of north africa and western asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in tropical africa, india and sri lanka. Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have car..
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Fine art print.Features a cassowary bird (Casuarius galeatus). These giant, rare birds are found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features coconut crab. The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, with a weight of up to 4.1 kg (9.0 lb). It can grow to up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). It is found ..
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Fine art print.Features a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the silvertip bear or the north american brown bear.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a hippopotamus (hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, the hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal. Their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about 55 million years ago. Hippos have barrel-shaped torsos, enormous..
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Fine art print.Features an indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and indian one-horned rhinoceros. The indian rhinoceros once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the indo-gangetic plain, but excessive hunting reduced the natural habitat drastical..
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Fine art print.Features a jaguar (Panthera onca), the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion. The jaguar's range extends from southern USA to Argentina. This spotted cat most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioral a..
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Fine art print.Features a lemon and its leaf.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a lionness with her cubs.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features an ornamental shrimp. These shrimps are a type of cleaner shrimp, which clean fish which come to the shrimp's cleaner station.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features an ostrich (strutho camelus), an african flightless bird which is the largest bird in the world.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features raccoons.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
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Fine art print.Features a secretary bird (Serpentarius reptilivorus), an african bird of prey which hunts on foot and is very fast.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
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