Handsome reproductions set within trompe lquotoeilshyeffect mounts from quotthe birds of great britainquot 1873 by john gould 1804 81 a leading british ornithologist the illustrations are based upon sketches and studies created by gould from the life they were then reworked by a wider team of artists overseen by gould and made into coloured lithographs by the engraver william hart the lithographs would have been handshycoloured originally images include a blackbird fieldfares an