To see our specialist collections, please click below.

John Gould                       Joseph Wolf                   George Edwards

This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique ornithological prints. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself. For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us. 

Greenland Falcon. Falcio greenlandicus. Saker Falcon. Falcio sacer. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Owl: Horned Owl from Athens.

Stork: Australian Mycteria. Myceteria australis. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Brasilian Green Macaw. Pet of Lord Carpenter, drawn from life by the ‘Father of British Ornithology’.

Parakeet: Barnard’s Parakeet (Fort Lincoln Parrot) indigenous to Australia.

SOLD. Macaw: Red and Blue (Scarlet) Macaw indigenous to South and Central America. Endangered.

Northern Hummingbird pair.

Dodo with Guinea Pig: After the life painting by Jan Savery. Edwards elegant depiction of the rather dumpy Dodo, extinct by 1662, became the basis for subsequent illustrations including that in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Cockatoo:Lesser Lemon-Crested Cockatoo. Indigenous to Celebes (Sulawesi) and the Lesser Sundas in the Malay Archipelago.

Iceland Falcon. Falcio islandicus. Drawn from life at the Zoological Society’s Vivarium.

Fire-Backed or Crested forest pheasant of Java.

Cormorant: Pelicanus Sinensis. Fishing Cormorant of China.

Manchurian Crane. Grus montignesia. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Toucan: Green billed Toucan from Cayenne, Guiana With life size detail of bill.

Green Aracari; Pteroglossus viridis from South America.