John Gould (14 Sept 1804 - 3 Feb 1881) was without question the most prolific and successful ornithological artist of the 19th century, and the only one to rival John James Audubon in ambition and quality.

The Birds of Asia
John Gould (1804-1881)
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BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF.
It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage (Sabine Baring-Gould 1865)

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Born 1804, the ornithologist John Gould, who inspired Millais's painting "The Ruling Passion": having a "ruling passion" is a great help in life! https://t.co/QduyrowfZG

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recent things i enjoyed drawing. sulking gould just appeared on my art program to judge me

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Peter Strain's () illustration and hand-lettering set an eerie mood for the cover of the new book release by Courtney Gould, the dead and the dark.

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■ Snow Pigeon (Columba leuconota)
📷 Veer Vaibhav Mishra 5/May/2014

■ 19th century painting from Rajasthan

■ Hand-coloured litho 1832 after a painting by Elizabeth Gould

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September is Australian Biodiversity Month 🐨🦜🦘

Over the month I'm going to post illustrations of Australian animals from rare books in the library collection, starting with these koalas from John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' (1863)

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he's the master, it's practically, diagrammatic, or something...like chester gould, everything that doesn't propel the story forward has been boiled off...and it just makes you happy reading something that well done!

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a very select few would beeeee rod scribner, manny gould, jim tyer, and norman rockwell (gotta keep ya on your toes!)

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ANIMATION/ART TWITTER: who are some artists/animators you are inspired by or like to study?

for me, it's Bill Littlejohn, Manny Gould, Tissa David and Ben Washam (on top of many more)

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.gould.180 sporting one of the New Mutants designs from my shop! Link in bio!

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Ellie Goulding () has commented on my artwork and tweeted me a few times! She's actually the reason I joined Twitter 8 years ago and pursued art in the first place!! Here are just a few pieces I've done over the years. 💙💙 https://t.co/zvUAnafMsO

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Hoy tenemos 3 en
Elizabeth Gould, ilustradora científica
Maria von Linden, naturalista
María de Maeztu Whitney, pedagoga y educadora
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Happy Birthday Elizabeth Gould née Coxen born in 1804. 'Birds, described by John Gould, with a notice of their habits and ranges by Charles Darwin…' (Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle…)[1841] contains some of the 600 illustrations by Elizabeth.

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