Avian jewels in Asia's crown

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 10, 1995| Author: GERALDINE NORMAN | Copyright information

AN EXTRAORDINARY opportunity is offered at Christie's next week to invest in works of art which are also scientific documents - the original watercolour illustrations for John Gould's The Birds of Asia, a book which took 34 years to compile, from 1849 to 1883, in which many species were illustrated for the first time. Art could still serve science in the 19th century; today a scientist employs a camera, not a watercolourist, to record his or her findings.

Gould used three very gifted a...

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