Dr. Marion C. Korstanje Collection of Natural History Prints
I. Orchis Serapias secun da Dodonaei II. Iris Bulbosa lutea mixta III. Iris Bulboasa vislaceo ce love mixta from “Hortus Eystettensis” (Garden of Eichstatt), 1613
engraving with later hand-coloring
Gift of Dr. Marion C. Korstanje
Joseph Wolf, British (b. Germany) 1820-1899 Cicinnurus Regius (King Bird of Paradise)
From Daniel Elliot’s "A Monograph of the Birds of Paradise", 1873
Hand-colored lithograph
Gift of Dr. Marion C. Korstanje
Between 1996 and 2007, the late Dr. Marion C. Korstanje, a prominent Huntington ophthalmologist, generously donated more than 200 natural history prints, concentrating on bird and botanical subjects.
The natural history prints include magnificent works by Mark Catesby, John James Audubon, John Gould, Joseph Pierre Buc’hoz, Basilius Besler and Pierre Joseph Redoute, among others, and create a sympathetic connection between the Museum’s art and nature programs.
