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
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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.

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