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Rothschild wrote in Avifauna<\/strong> that Palmer recorded collecting the Canada goose in 1891. At the time there was one known type of native Hawaiian goose, therefore \u201cas no other Goose had been recorded from these islands, I erroneously concluded it must be new. However, even before I discovered the true name of this bird I had suspected my mistake, when Palmer sent me three other American species of Geese\u201d and he realized that it was a species of Canada goose.<\/p>\n

John Gerrard Keulemans was the most sought-after bird artist in Europe from roughly 1870 to 1910, esteemed for his high standard of scientific accuracy. Working largely from bird specimens, he had a special talent for creating drawings that were both anatomically correct and aesthetically striking. A skilled lithographer as well, he was unusual among natural history artists in that he generally transferred his own drawings to plates. In his early twenties, the Dutch-born Keulemans was mentored by Dr. Herman Schlegel, a renowned zoologist and director of the natural history museum in Leiden, who brought him on an ornithological expedition to Africa and then hired him onto the museum staff and encouraged his artistic development. Soon Keulemans attracted his own commissions for natural history illustrations, mainly from England, a center for study of the zoological specimens arriving from farflung expeditions. In 1869, he received a major assignment from Richard Bowdler Sharpe of the Zoological Society of London to produce 120 lithographs for his Monograph of the Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers<\/strong> and thereafter pursued his artistic career in Britain, illustrating monographs and scientific journal articles by leading ornithologists. He was one of several well-known artists who contributed to Lord Thomas Lilford’s Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands<\/strong> (1885-1897), a seven-volume work contained 421 plates, representing late 19th-century chromolithography at its best. Keulemans illustrated many volumes of the British Museum\u2019s Catalogue of Birds<\/strong> (1874-1898). He also illustrated other natural history subjects, including a book on monkeys.<\/p>\n

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 3rd baronet and 2nd Baron Rothschild, was a member of British branch of the wealthy and influential Rothschild family. His position required him to work in the family business of banking and finance until he was allowed to give it up in 1908, and to serve as a member of the House of Lords in Parliament. In the meantime he used his wealth to pursue his true passion, collecting and researching zoological specimens especially in the areas of ornithology and entomology, building the largest such collection ever accumulated by an individual. While he did some of his own on site collecting, he also contracted with other people to acquire specimens for him, and employed a staff to mount, curate and document his collections. A respected authority in his own right, he published important scientific papers and monographs throughout his life. He was also active in Jewish causes and directed the Balfour Declaration in 1917 approving a Jewish homeland in Palestine on behalf of the British government. Rothschild was elected a Trustee of the British Museum in 1899 and elected to the Royal Society in 1911. Today his collections are housed in the American Museum of Natural History and the British Museum (Natural History).<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall light wear, toning, soft creases.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

The entire original publication of Rothschild\u2019s The Avifauna of Laysan<\/strong> has been scanned and placed online by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries on the web site \u201cRothschild: Birds of Laysan. Full Text Edition,\u201d edited by Leslie K. Overstreet. The plates related to the four species of Moho can be viewed at http:\/\/web4.si.edu\/sil\/rothschild\/toc.cfm by selecting Plates 72-75, and the text by selecting Part III, pp. 217-228. The plate related to the Canada Goose is Plate 80, and the text is in Part III, p. 279.<\/p>\n

Brooks, T. \u201cMoho apicalis.\u201d 2000. In: IUCN 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<\/em> http:\/\/www.redlist.org\/search\/details.php?species=13624 (1 November 2004).<\/p>\n

Brooks, T. \u201cMoho nobilis.\u201d 2000. In: IUCN 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<\/em> http:\/\/www.redlist.org\/search\/details.php?species=13625 (1 November 2004).<\/p>\n

Fontana, Elizabeth, ed. “John Gerrard Keulemans.” Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection, Cornell University Library<\/em>. June 1999. http:\/\/rmc.library.cornell.edu\/ornithology\/exhibit\/exhibit5d.htm (3 June 2002).<\/p>\n

Overstreet, Leslie K. \u201cRothschild: Birds of Laysan.\u201d Smithsonian Institution Libraries.<\/em> February 2002. http:\/\/www.sil.si.edu\/digitalcollections\/nhrarebooks\/rothschild\/essays\/overstreet_rothschild.htm (1 November 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lionel Walter Rothschild (editor) (1868-1937)
\nJohn Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) (after and lithographer)
\nMintern Bros. (printer)
\nBernicla Canadensis Munroei, Rothsch. (Plate 80) [Canada Goose]<\/strong>
\nfrom The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands<\/em><\/strong>
\nR.H. Porter, 18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square W., London: 1893-1900
\nLithograph
\nSigned in print: JGK
\n12 x 9 inches, image and text
\n15 x 11.25 inches, overall
\n$300<\/p>\n

Very rare print by J.G. Keulemans of a Canada Goose found on Laysan Island, Hawaii. Laysan Island was home to an astonishing array of bird species in the 19th century and now part of the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation. In 1890, the British natural history collector Lionel Walter Rothschild sent a sailor named Henry Palmer on a collecting expedition to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands, with special emphasis on Laysan. Palmer spent over two years accumulating almost 2,000 specimens, including 15 species previously unknown in the West, many of which have since become extinct. These served as the basis for Rothschild\u2019s monograph The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands<\/strong>, which included 83 plates, 55 of which were hand-colored lithographs, mostly by Keulemans.<\/p>\n

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