A 19th-century drawing of an Asian barred owlet

Asian barred owlet, n.d., by #ElizabethGould (British, 1804-41). Source, @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy, www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/15/e... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #SuperbOwlSunday #SuperbOwls Superb Owl

There is a new book about the artist: Birds of the World: The Art of #ElizabethGould by Andrea Hart & Ann Datta, published by Prestel: prestelpublishing.penguinrandomhouse.de/book/Birds-o...

A painting of an ibis, facing to the viewer’s left, in a suggestion of a sketched landscape. The bird’s coloring is mostly deep pink, but there are greenish-black feathers on its wings and back.

Glossy Ibis / Plegadis falcinellus, by #ElizabethGould (née Coxen; British, 1804-1841), who was born #otd, July 18. Plate 301, The Birds of Europe (1832–37); source, www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/eliz... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory