Lamprotornis Spilopterus, winged Starling. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and reimagined
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. Reimagined by Gibon. Classic art with a modern twist
Size: 3130px × 4918px
Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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