Great white pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus. Pelican. Copied from George Shaw’s illustration in Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, 1809. Handcoloured woodblock engraving from The Natural History of Birds, published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, Suffolk, 1815. Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in Bungay in 1795 and went into partnership with nonconformist radical printer John Firby Childs in 1808.

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