http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/964922/resize%3Aformat%3DfullBrazilian Hummingbirds IV (Heliactin Cornuta)1864Martin Johnson HeadeChromolithograph on paperBirds on forked branch with hanging moss, the male above, with horns, leaning toward his mate. "Gems of Brazil" was the title given to twelve pictures, first exhibited by Heade in Rio de Janeiro in 1864, representing part of the twenty paintings intended to be chromolithographed and published in London, the work dedicated to Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil. Apparently, only a few proofs were made, unsatisfactory to the artist, and the project was abandoned. Robert G. McIntyre in Martin Johnson Heade, N.Y., 1948, lists only six impressions of the chromos, four of which, including this one, are in Museum of Fine Arts.Prints30.4000000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/161433/rdf