The Birds of Australia is a 12-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of Australia. It was the second of three monumental illustrated works dealing with the avifauna of the continent and wa
Now extinct paradise parrot (Psephotellus pulcherrimus) from Vol. 6
Illustration of now extinct Lord Howe Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae albaria) from The Birds of Australia
Lipoa ocellata (malleefowl) from Volume I. Keulemans
Henrik Grønvold
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Henrik Grønvold was a Danish naturalist and artist, known for his illustrations of birds. Grønvold was among the last natural history illustrators to publish lithographs.
The Birds of Australia (Mathews)
…600 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans (who completed 163 illustrations for the first four volumes before his death on 29 March 1912), H. Grönvold, Roland Green, Herbert Goodchild and G.E. Lodge. Stone commented on the plates by saying that as artistic productions they could not be compared with…
Grønvold's illustration of an Arabian golden sparrow and a yellow-throated petronia from G. E. Shelley's Birds of Africa