
Légende
Parra Sinensis, Pheasant-Tailed Jacana.A jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae. 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_239
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
44,4Mo (1,2Mo) / 26,7cm x 41,6cm / 3154 x 4918 (300dpi)