Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18845

    Common partridges

    Date
    1837
    Creator
    John Gould (1804 - 1881, British) , Ornithologist
    Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841, British) , Artist
    Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850, British) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    41611
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 560mm
    width (page): 370mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological study of two common partridges, Perdix perdix, referred to here as Perdix cinerea, one shown perched among some reeds, the other standing in left profile.

    Inscribed below: 'Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J & E Gould
    COMMON PARTRIDGE.
    Perdix cinerea, (Lath)
    Printed by C Hullmandel'

    Plate 262 from volume IV of John Gould's The Birds of Europe (1837).

    John Gould (1804-1881), British ornithologist and publisher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843.

    Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841), British artist and illustratior, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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