Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21948

    Western tragopan

    Date
    1832
    Creator
    Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841, British) , Illustrator
    Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850, British) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    41609
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 546mm
    width (print): 357mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    An ornithological study the western tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus, here styled Tragopan hastingsii. Depicting a young male bird two thirds of the natural size.

    Inscribed ‘TRAGOPAN HASTINGSII. 2/3 Nat. Size. Drawn from Nature and on Stone by E. Gould. Printed by C. Hullmandel.’

    TAB. LXIV to A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains by John Gould FRS (1832).

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

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
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