Details: GOULD, John (1804-1881)and W. HART; H. C. RICHTER. 4 prints from " Birds of Great Britain" 1)Cuculus Canorus Young ejecting its nestling Companions, 2) Melanocorypha Calandra: Calandra Lark, 3) Euspiza Melanocephala: Black-headed Euspiza, 4) Melanocorypha Leucoptera: White-winged Lark. [London: by the Author, 1862 - 1873]. Hand-coloured lithograph by W. Hart and H.C.Richter, printed by Walter. Sheet size: app. 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches.

Four images from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: "A magnificent work with life-like portraits of birds of the British Isles" (Wood)

Gould's illustrations were all painstakingly coloured by hand, as he states in his Preface: "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however, is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand."

Cf.Fine Bird Books (1990), p. 102; cf. Nissen IVB 372; cf. Sauer 23; cf. Wood p. 365; cf. Zimmer p. 261.

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