Pacific Art

Fine art print.Features Kea Parrots from New Zealand. These playful parrots are found in alpine regions of the South Island.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the Little Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx owenii) formerly known as the Little Grey Kiwi.Buller said : "The Grey Kiwi is distributed over a great portion of the South Island, and in some of the remote districts is still very abundant. Till recently i..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the North Island Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli).Buller said : "A full and complete history of the remarkable wingless birds which, even to the present day, form the most distinctive feature in the avifauna of New Zealand, would necessarily fi..

Fine art print.Features Garments from Melanasia.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features Kea parrots (Nestor notabilis).Of the Kea, Buller says "far above dwarf vegetation in all the wonderful variety of alpine shrubs and flowers...This is the home of the Kea". Walter Buller KCMG (1838 - 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and natura..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the Yellow-crested Penguin, now known as the Fiordland Crested Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) and the Blue Penguin, now known as the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor).Buller said of the Little Penguin: "I once had a live one in my possessio..

Fine art canvas print.Extinct Moa birds with ancient Maori hunting them. The Moa bird was found in New Zealand up to at least 1300ad. It was one of largest birds that has ever lived.Based on an antique print from the early 1900s by Heinrich Harder, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read ..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features New Zealand Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus vagans).Buller said:"The New-Zealand bird is very generally dispersed, being met with in all suitable localities. It frequents alike the sea-shore, the open country, forest-clearings, and the banks..

Fine art print.Features Ornaments from Melanasia and Polynesia.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...

Fine art print.Features Ornaments from Polynesia.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...

Fine art print.Features Tapa cloth designs from Polynesia.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...

Fine art canvas print.A superb rare vintage illustration of Tuatara. The Tuatara is famous because it is the only survivor of an ancient group of reptiles that roamed the earth at the same time as dinosaurs. It hasn't changed much in over 225 million years! The relatives of Tuatara died out about 60..

Fine art print.Features a Village on stilts in New Guinea.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features female and male Huia birds (Heteralocha acutirostris, extinct mid-1920s).Buller said of the Huia:"Before proceeding to speak of the bird itself, I would remark on the very restricted character of its habitat. It is confined within narrow geo..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features female and male Huia birds (Heteralocha acutirostris, extinct mid-1920s). Buller said of the Huia:"Before proceeding to speak of the bird itself, I would remark on the very restricted character of its habitat. It is confined within narrow ge..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features adult and young Tui or Parson birds (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae). Buller said of the Tui:"The early colonists named it the Parson bird, in allusion to the peculiar tufts of white feathers that adorn its throat, and their fancied resemblan..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features adult and young Tui or Parson birds (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae). Buller said of the Tui:"The early colonists named it the Parson bird, in allusion to the peculiar tufts of white feathers that adorn its throat, and their fancied resemblan..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) and Silvereye (Zosterops lataeralis).Buller said of the Tui:"The early colonists named it the Parson bird, in allusion to the peculiar tufts of white feathers that adorn its throat, and their fancied resemblance..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features Kakariki Parrots, also known as the Red Crowned Parakeet, Yellow Crowned Parakeet and Ornage-Fronted Parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae and Cyanoramphus auriceps).Of the Red Crowned Parakeet, Buller says "when on the wing it utters a hurr..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the New Zealand Dotterel and Banded Dotterel.Buller said of the Banded Dotterel:"...it rises in tha air with very rapid movement of the wings and usuall adopts a circualr course...it is hard to kill often flying a considerable distance after..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features female and male New Zealand Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa).Buller said of this bird:"It is very tame and familiar, allowing a person to approach within a few feet of it without evincing any alarm, sometimes, indeed, perching for an instant o..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the New Zealand pigeon or Kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae).Buller said:"Of the large and well-defined group of fruit-eating Pigeons found dispersed over the sea-girt lands of the southern hemisphere, the single species inhabiting New Zeala..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features male and female New Zealand Quail or Koreke (Coturnix novaezelandiae, extinct 1875). Buller said:"This handsome species, the only indigenous representative in New Zealand of the order Gallinæ, was “on the verge of extinction” when I publishe..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) and New Zealand Scaup( Aythya novaeseelandiae). Buller said of the Blue Duck:"Far up the mountain-gorge, where the foaming torrent, walled in on both sides, rushes impetuously over its shingle-bed,..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the Blue Heron and White-fronted Heron These are now known as the Reef heron (Egretta sacra) and Blue Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae). Buller said of the White-fronted heron:"The White-fronted Heron is very sparingly dispersed over the New-Z..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features the Chatham-Island Shag, now known as the Pitt Island Shag (Stictocarbo featherstoni). Buller said:"This beautiful addition to the ornithology of our country was one of the novelties brought from the Chatham Islands by Mr. Henry Travers on h..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features Chatham Island fernbird (Bowdleria rufescens, extinct 1892) and Fernbird or Matata (Bowdleria punctata). Of the Chatham Island Fernbird, Buller reported:'Mr. Henry Travers says:—“I only found this bird on Mangare, where it is not uncommon. I..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features Pipit (Anthus Novaeseelandiae) and Fernbird (Bowdleria punctata), both from New Zealand.Of the Fernbird, Buller reported: "This recluse little species is one of our commonest birds, butis oftener heard than seen. It frequents the dense fern ..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features adult and young Gould's Harriers (Circus gouldi). These are now known as Swamp Harriers or Kahu (Circus approximans).Walter Buller KCMG (1838 - 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist. His work, "A History of the Birds of New Zealand",..

Fine art print inspired by John Gerrard Keulemans.Features a Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus).Buller commented that the the rare and endangered Kakapo parrot had a face that resembled an owl and nocturnal habits.Walter Buller KCMG (1838 - 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist. His work, "A Hist..