Giclée print - South Island Kokako

 Limited Edition (200) signed Giclée print by David Elliot

Shows the the South Island Kokako (now probably extinct) from First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Tessa Duder and illustrated by David

This is one of six beautiful illustrations from the book now available as high-quality, limited edition Giclée prints.

• Paper size: 200 mm x 295 mm
• Framed: No

This image appears on page 72 of First Map:

The kōkako was among the native birds whose song entranced Joseph Banks at Ship Cove. The tree-clad hill probably featured the bright scarlet summer-flowing southern rata. Earlier, as Endeavour sailed during November around East Cape and the Coromandel Peninsula, Banks had noted the coastal pōhutukawa, ‘an excellent timber tree…which bears a very conspicuous flower made up [of] many threads, and is a large tree as big an oak in England, has a very heavy hard wood…’

 A Giclée (zhee-KLAY) is a superb-quality copy of an artwork or photograph. It is made using high-end 8-to-12 colour inkjet printing techniques coupled with the use of pigment inks, archival inks which maintain image stability and colour permanence better than all other known inks.