John Gould b. 14 September 1804

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
For an artist with no formal training and who had his beginning as a gardener and taxidermist, John Gould produced an enormous quantity of fine hand-coloured illustrations for his ornithological and natural history works. His total output of lithographs numbers well into the hundreds of thousands. Assisted by his wife and employed artists who would transfer his drawings onto lithographic paltes, G

Citations

  • Gould, John (1862), 'The Birds of Great Britain’, England, UK, In five volumes from 1862/1873.

  • Gould, John (1840), 'The Birds of Australia’, England, UK, Another edition in 1848 and a Supplement in 1869. In total, there were 681 hand-coloured lithographs.

  • Chisholm, A. (1966), ''John Gould’ (and bibliography)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 1, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G. and Ward, R., Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gould, J. (1979), 'The Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands 1837 38’, facsimile edn, Melbourne, Vic. (appendices).

  • Lambourne, M. (1987), 'John Gould – Bird Man’, Milton Keynes.

  • McEvey, A. (1955), 'Audubon and Gould: A Comparison’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Reeve, L. (ed.) (1864), 'Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art with Biographical Memoirs’, London, England, UK.

  • Sauer, G. (1982), 'John Gould the Bird Man: A Chronology and Bibliography’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Bowdler Sharpe, R. (1893), 'An Analytical Index to the Works of the Late John Gould, F.R.S., with a Biographical Memoir and Portrait’, London, England, UK.

  • (1976), 'John Gould—some unanswered questions’, Books and Libraries at the University of Kansas 13/2, USA.

  • (1938), Emu 38/2 {ADD book on John Gould in Australia}.

  • McEvey, A. (1973), ''John Gould’s contribution to British art: A note on its authenticity’ (and bibliography)’, Australian Academy of the Humanities Art Monograph, vol. 2, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions