Vintage Print - Tropical Bird Print - Gould Ornithology Art - Trogon

Handcolored lithograph from John Gould's "Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands" (1875-1888) depicting the Pitta Novae-Guineae or New Guinea Pitta, dated 1965.

John Gould is one of the most prolific publishers of ornithological subjects in history, he travelled to remote areas to collect bird specimens for the hand colored lithographs he was famous for.

Gould would generally make the sketches and his wife Elizabeth would transfer them to lithographic stones and hand color them, although many other excellent artists would be involved in these works including, William Hart, Edward Lear, H.C. Richter, and Joseph Wolf.