Garrulus Bispecularis
Artist: Elizabeth Gould
Printed by: Charles Hullmandel
1831
"Drawn from nature & on stone"
Source: Gould, plate 38
John Gould married Elizabeth Coxen, the daughter of a taxidermist, in 1829. He would give his "infinitely tolerant and accommodating" wife the roughest of sketches, from which she would produce the drawing — which he then corrected in minute detail (see Tree 28-29). [Commentary continues below.]
Image acquisition and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.