Légende

Cinnyris Gouldiae, Blue-throated Simla Yellow-backed Sunbird. 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

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited

Notre référence

LZT16A06_221

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,7Mo (943,1Ko) / 25,7cm x 41,6cm / 3033 x 4918 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Cinnyris Gouldiae Blue-throated Simla Yellow-backed Sunbird 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