biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1804–81)
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| biography:
| Ornithologist and publisher, born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, S England, UK. In 1827 he became curator and preserver (taxidermist) to the new Zoological Society's museum in London. An accomplished artist, he travelled widely, drawing birds whose skins he collected for the museum. Working with the newly developed technique of lithography, and assisted by his talented wife Elizabeth, née Coxon (d.1841), he produced 18 monumental books of sumptuous bird illustrations, including Birds of Europe (5 vols, 1832–7), Birds of Australia (7 vols, 1840–8), Birds of Asia (1849–83), and Birds of Great Britain (5 vols, 1862–73). |
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