19th Century Bird Print - One of 24

Mr. John Gould's tropical framed Bird prints 1955 taken from his limited edition of 1000. The most celebrated British ornithologist of the nineteenth-century John Gould (1804-1881) was a businessman, publisher, and obsessive bird collector with an eye for a talented artist. He displayed his entrepreneurial skills from a young age while an apprentice in the royal gardens at Windsor, where, by the age of 14, he was selling stuffed birds to the sons of the aristocracy at Eton College. By the time he was 21 he had set up his own taxidermy business in London.

Place of Origin: England
Period: 19th Century
Dimensions: 14.2 x 9.8 ″

Inventory Number: ZZ356O
Location: JAA

Price: $ 495