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Panel 3    A Bird in the Hand

Topknot Pigeon

Elizabeth Gould (18041841)
Lopholaimus antarcticus
Modern common name: Topknot Pigeon
hand-coloured lithograph; 55.3 x 38.1 cm
London: J. Gould, 1848
Rex Nan Kivell Collection
National Library of Australia
U7297A NK7038/A

Elizabeth Gould was a natural history painter and lithographer. She came to Australia from England in 1838 with her husband, John, returning to England in 1840 where she died the following year. During her time in Tasmania and New South Wales she made more than 600 drawings of birds and plants to assist her in producing the final lithographs for John Gould's The Birds of Australia (1840-1848).


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