John Gould's hummingbirds – a Victorian obsession Special Collections and Archives / Casgliadau Arbennig ac Archifau

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John Gould (1804-1881) was a prolific bird artist and the most celebrated ornithologist of Victorian Britain. He published more than forty folio volumes on birds of the world, beautifully illustrated with nearly 3,000 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Considered a pioneer of ornithology, Gould’s identification of the birds now known as "Darwin's finches" helped Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution…