Caption

Picus Hyperythrus, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker. 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_215

License type

Rights managed

Available size

44,0Mb (1,2Mb) / 10,4in x 16,4in / 3130 x 4918 (300dpi)

Keywords

Picus Hyperythrus Rufous-bellied Woodpecker 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