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The Birds of Great Britain

Print
1869 (published)
Artist/Maker
Gould, John (printmaker)
Place of origin
London (published)

Print of a grouse hen with chicks with two displaying male grouse, nearby, in a moorland landscape on the cover of a pale green portfolio.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Books
Object type
Print
TitleThe Birds of Great Britain (series title)
Materials and techniques
Ink on card with a buckram spine
Ink
Card
Buckram
Wood-Engraving
Brief description
Print by John Gould for the front cover of 'The Birds of Great Britain' series; published 1869
Physical description
Print of a grouse hen with chicks with two displaying male grouse, nearby, in a moorland landscape on the cover of a pale green portfolio.
Dimensions
  • Height: 57.3cm
  • Width: 39.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'THE BIRDS / OF / GREAT BRITAIN. / BY J.GOULD, F.R.S. & c. / PART XVI. / CONTENTS / ORANGE-LEGGED HOBBY. WOOD-LARK. BLACK GUILLEMOT. / BARN-OWL. COMMON BUNTING. KITTIWAKE. / ALPINE SWIFT SHELDRAKE. LITTLE GULL. / RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. RUDDY SHELDRAKE. STORM-PETREL / WHITE'S THRUSH. SCAUP DUCK. FORK-TAILED STORM -PETREL' (Textual information; Above and below the print; printing; ink)
  • 'LONDON: / PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 26, CHARLOTTE STREET, BEDFORD SQUARE, W.C. / SEPTEMBER 1st, 1869. [ Price Three Guineas.] (Publisher's identification; Beneath the print; printing; ink)
  • 'TRUBSHAW' (Collector's mark; Above the title on the front cover of the portfolio.; handwriting; pencil)
  • 'THEATRES' (Unknown; Beneath the print; handwriting; ink)
  • NETHE...? PRINTER/ BINDER /?[BOOK]SELLER/STATIONER/LEMON STREET/TRURO (Label on the inside of the portfolio)
  • No.6 (Written in pencil on the inside of the portfolio)
Credit line
Accepted by H M Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2000
Object history
This portfolio came with the Hohler collection containing letters from AWN Pugin, E.32-33-2001, drawings by AWN Pugin, E.23-31 & 34-40-2001, and architectural drawings by the Trubshaw Brothers and other miscellaneous, anonymous artists E.41-74-2001. Its original contents: prints of The Birds of Great Britain were missing. The letters and architectural drawings have been relocated to A.245.B.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1313-2001

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Record createdAugust 15, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O66994/the-birds-of-great-britain-print-gould-john/
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