Caption

Lamprotornis Spilopterus, winged Starling. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist,he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination with birds from the east began in the late 1820s when a collection of birds from the Himalayan mountains arrived at the Society's museum and Gould conceived the idea of publishing a volume of imperial folio sized hand-coloured lithographs of the eighty species, with figures of a hundred birds. Elizabeth Gould made the drawings and transferred them to the large lithographic stones. They are called Gould plates.

Date

1832

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited

Reference

LZT16A06_200

License type

Rights managed

Available size

44,0Mb (1,0Mb) / 10,4in x 16,4in / 3130 x 4918 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lamprotornis Spilopterus winged Starling Asian Himalayan Himalayas bird exotic tailed illustration 1830s 1831 1832 19th Century Animal Animal Behaviour Animal Marking Arkheia Animal Pattern Artist British Artist European Background Bird Bizarre Books & Manuscripts British Artist Close Up Close-Up Closeup Color Colour Early 19th Century Liszt Cultural Institute Early Nineteenth Century English Art English Artist European Artist Full Length Full-Length Gould Hand Colored Hand Coloring Natural History Gould