GOULD OLD PRINT TROPICAL AUSTRALIAN BIRD OF PARADISE

GOULD OLD PRINT TROPICAL AUSTRALIAN BIRD OF PARADISE (image 1/1)
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VINTAGE ART PRINT circa 1946 This print is over 60 years old * A Copy of Provenance will be provided * GREY-CHESTED BIRD of PARADISE (Paradisea Decora) Artist: JOHN GOULD John Gould, the Bird Man, was the enterprising genius behind the creation of 2999 different hand­colored lithographic plates of birds and animals. He was born on September 14, 1804, at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast in England. As the son of a gardener, Gould had no formal university training. He considered himself a self-made man. He gained his ornithological knowledge by observation and experience. Nevertheless his contributions to this science were so vast that in 1843 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Gould married Elizabeth Coxen in 1827. Elizabeth traveled and worked with Gould until her death in 1841. Shortly after their marriage, Gould, who was a skilled taxidermist, acquired a collection of bird skins from the hill country of the Himalayas, many of them new to Europe. After he stuffed and mounted them, he realized their artistic possibilities, and his new life as a bird illustrator began. Elizabeth helped to draw, lithograph, and color many of his first plates. Over the next 57 years Gould published more than forty large folio volumes. The first set appeared in 1831 and the last in 1888, seven years after Gould's death. The making of these read more
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