Falco Chicquera, Red-necked Falcon or Red-headed Merlin. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by reimagined
Falco Chicquera, Red-necked Falcon or Red-headed Merlin. 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. Reimagined by Gibon. Classic art with a modern twist
Size: 3175px × 4910px
Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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