John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator (died 1881)

John Gould

English ornithologist (1804–1881)

John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. Because of his 1840s…