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  John Gould Inc.
John Gould was a businessman, publisher, and obsessive bird collector with an eye for a talented artist.
While John Gould's skills as an artist were limited, his drawings often capture the essence of a bird's characteristics.
John Gould was an immensely successful publisher, producing 21 titles, 15 of which were folio sets consisting of 49 volumes.
www.amonline.net.au /exhibitions/gould   (134 words)

  
  John Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener.
Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists, and also meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Society.
In 1838 the Goulds sailed to Australia intending to study the birds of that country and be the first to produce a major work on the subject.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Gould   (920 words)

  
 Lunch with John Gould | csmonitor.com
JOHN GOULD: The columnist celebrated his 60th anniversary with the Christian Science Monitor at a luncheon in Rockland, Maine in October, 2002.
John Gould; his wife, Dorothy; their daughter, Kathy; friends; and various editors - past and present - from The Christian Science Monitor gathered to honor Mr.
Our announcement of " John Gould Day," which was declared by Maine's governor and celebrated by the state on Aug. 21, 2002.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/1115/p25s02-hfgn.html   (579 words)

  
 John Gould's Bird Books and the Visual Response to Darwinism
Although John Gould is unfortunately known today as "the British Audubon," he was Victorian Britain's leading ornithologist and the author, between 1830 and 1880, of nearly twenty opulent folio works of bird illustrations.
Gould sent presentation copies of his introduction to both Darwin and Richard Owen, the latter a powerful and conservative member of Britain's scientific elite, a staunch opponent of Darwin's theory, and a close friend of Gould's.
But Gould also makes a significant addition that seeks to retain his earlier speculation: the scene is presided over by the foster-parent, implying that this violence, like the violence of the scenes in which parents feed their offspring, is necessary and therefore planned, or at least overseen, by a governing parent and a governing God.
www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~jonsmith/gould.html   (2539 words)

  
 John Maxfield Gould
Amos Gould, grandfather of Judge Gould, was also a native of Massachusetts, and fought for freedom in the war of the Revolution.
Gould acted as financial manager of the new concern at Moline for four years, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr.
Gould was actively interested was the Moline Water Power Company which he helped to organize and of which he was elected treasurer and director.
all-biographies.com /judges/john_maxfield_gould.htm   (1427 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Gould   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Gould League is an independent Australian organisation promoting environmental education, originally founded in 1908 and named after the English ornithologist John Gould.
Maybe you are looking for John Hope Franklin Sir John Franklin, FRGS (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate — and that of his last expedition — was for many years a mystery.
John Gould Fletcher was born on 3 January 1886 at Little Rock, Arkansas.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Gould   (2529 words)

  
 John Gould   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gould learned taxidermy at Windsor Castle, where his father was foreman of gardeners.
Gould's sketches were transferred to the lithographer's stone by his wife, the former Elizabeth Coxon, whose artistic talents were to enhance many of his works until her death in 1841.
Gould's lifetime work comprised more than 40 volumes, with more than 3,000 coloured plates.
www.anbg.gov.au /biography/gould.john.html   (254 words)

  
 JOHN MEAD GOULD'S BIOGRAPHY Part One (1839 - 1863)
John Mead Gould was born at number 53 Brown Street in Portland, Maine on December 15th, 1839.
JMG attended Gould Academy in Bethel from February 27th, 1854 to November 17th, 1855 (ironically, he was not related to the Gould for whom the school was named).
Gould's conscise analysis of the battle was - "the panic which spread amongst our troops was the fatal blow and the neglect to support the attacks of the advancing regiments was the cause of our final disaster.".
www.geocities.com /~jmgould/jmgould.html   (2672 words)

  
 John Gould   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Gould was an English artist who did not visit the western hemisphere, but spent a great deal of time studying and painting birds in Asia, Australia, and the East Indies, as well as in Europe.
Gould and his associates worked in his home in London, and to that studio were brought bird specimens by the thousands from all over the world.
John Gould himself is said to have created at least the basic sketch for all the paintings in the mammoth series, but his associates were excellent artists in their own right.
www.naturehouse-gallery.com /bio-gould.htm   (346 words)

  
 South Pacific Taxidermy
A young Gould was able to expand his interest in ornithology at Windsor, where he would spend much of his free time when not assisting his father, exploring the estate and surrounding country side in search of nests, eggs and bird specimens.
By the time he was 21, John Gould had departed the horticultural field to pursue his growing passion of ornithology and taxidermy, a move that was to mark a turning point in his career, and one in which he was to never look back upon.
John Gould, with the assistance of his talented wife Elizabeth, had already published a series of imperial sized works on ornithology, comprised of lavishly hand-colored illustrations of birds and text.
www.southpacifictaxidermy.com /html/bird.htm   (794 words)

  
 John Gould, General Authority
John Gould was born 11 May 1808 in Ontario, Canada, the fifth of twelve children born to Seth Burr Gould and Hannah sager.
Elder Gould was ordained a Seventy in 1836.
Gould complied with the wishes of the Prophet, and he was consequently ordained a High Priest.
personal.atl.bellsouth.net /w/o/wol3/gouldj1.htm   (375 words)

  
 John Gould's Birds of Australia
Gould praises its courage, power and rapacity, and notes that a specimen he killed weighed nine pounds and measured six feet eight inches from tip to tip.
Gould was undeterred when he could not find a publisher to risk any capital on the work, and simply published it himself.
Gould described it as their ‘playing-ground or hall of assembly’ but was unsure about its exact purpose.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/july2005.html   (1771 words)

  
 John Gould, Ph.D. - Professional Profile
John Gould, Ph.D. John Gould consults on cases that encompass a wide range of finance-related issues, including Rule 10b-5, Section 11 and Section 12(2) class actions, mutual fund performance and derivative securities.
John has also focused on issues associated with complex securities such as convertible bonds, interest rate swaps, and collateralized mortgage obligations.
John is the co-author of "Market Maker Activity on Nasdaq: Implications for Trading Volume," which was published in the inaugural issue of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance.
www.businessforum.com /Gould_B.html   (201 words)

  
 John Gould Biography
John Gould, the Bird Man, was the enterprising genius behind the creation of 2999 different hand­colored lithographic plates of birds and animals.
Shortly after their marriage, Gould, who was a skilled taxidermist, acquired a collection of bird skins from the hill country of the Himalayas, many of them new to Europe.
Gould's original sketches were transferred to stone with special pencils or chalk.
www.traditionalart.com /gouldtext.html   (440 words)

  
 Ockham's Razor:13 June  2004  - John Gould's place in Australian culture
Gould is the Man of the Moment, and Matthew Stephens has helped organise a terrific exhibition at the Australian Museum, which is on for another month, and is really worth seeing, if you’re in central Sydney.
Gould is best remembered as the creator of many iconic images of Australian birds and mammals, and he made significant contributions as a naturalist, taxidermist and publisher.
John Gould was born on 14th September, 1804, in Dorsetshire, England.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s1130006.htm   (2289 words)

  
 John Gould 1 - Hand-Colored Lithographs - Beautiful Birds exhibit
John Gould was one of the outstanding figures in the world of 19th-century bird art.
During his lifetime Gould was responsible for the publication of more than 3,100 hand-colored lithographs, depicting birds from many parts of the world.
By the second half of the century, Gould's plates showed more lively studies of birds drawn from fresh-killed specimens, and included many eggs, nests and chicks, and foregrounds which were natural, detailed and well-defined.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /ornithology/exhibit/exhibit4a.htm   (329 words)

  
 John Gould Bird Prints Birds of Great Britain & Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Gould was a self-taught English naturalist, a gifted artist, and a talented taxidermist.
By mid-life Gould was recognized as an ornithological authority and a man of science and in 1843 was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
The great success of their first collaboration, Birds of Australia (1849-1883) encouraged Gould to embark on 'The Birds of Great Britain’ (1862-1873), generally considered to be his greatest achievement.
www.panteek.com /GouldBA/gba9.htm   (507 words)

  
 Ornithology Collections in the Libraries at Cornell University: A Descriptive Guide
John Gould [1804-1881] was a figure of enormous importance in the world of British ornithology.
More than anyone else, Gould was responsible for the fact that the 19th century brought the art of hand-colored bird illustration to a height of beauty that has probably never been surpassed.
Another interesting item in the collection is a handsome copy of Gould's Icones avium, or figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from various parts of the globe (1837-1838), which had belonged to the Gould family.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /ornithology/guide/hillguide15.htm   (1085 words)

  
 John Gould Fletcher - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Questia Online Library
Poets and Their Art ("John Gould Fletcher" begins on p.
...72 Amy Lowell 78 John Gould Fletcher 86 H. 92 Eliot...Millay Sara Teasdale Amy Lowell John Gould Fletcher H. Eliot and Sarett: A Contrast...
...Correspondence of Donald Davidson and John Gould Fletcher.
www.questia.com /library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/american-literature/20th-and-21st-centuries/john-gould-fletcher.jsp   (616 words)

  
 John Gould - Prideaux John Selby - J G Keulemans - Mark Catesby
We have five hummingbird plates from John Gould's famous Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
Gould issued this series in 25 parts from 1849-1861 with the help of H. Richter and William Hart.
John Gerrard Keulemans: A History of the Birds of Europe.
www.minniesland.com /print_room_Gould_Selby_Keulemans.html   (729 words)

  
 John Gould (ca. 1610-1690/1) - Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA
John Gould, aged 25 and a husbandman of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England and his wife Grace, 25, sailed on the Defence from London to New England.
John was an official inhabitant of Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA by 1635.
By 1636 when John was 26, he second married Mary [surname not known], in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA Their marriage date is estimated from the fact that their first child was born in 1636/7 (early 1637).
xenia.media.mit.edu /~kristin/fambly/Gould/JohnGould1.html   (1088 words)

  
 John Gould Stephenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Gould Stephenson (March 1, 1828 – November 12, 1882) was the fifth United States Librarian of Congress, serving from 1861 to 1864.
After training at the New Hampshire Medical Institution and the Castleton Medical College, he moved to Terre Haute, Indiana.
Active in Republican Party politics, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the post of Librarian of Congress, replacing John Silva Meehan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Gould_Stephenson   (220 words)

  
 John Gould's life
JOHN GOULD, one of the most important and productive ornithological illustrators of the 19th century, was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1804.
Gould's death, John Gould depended upon H. Richter, W. Hart, and (to a lesser degree) Joseph Wolf to support him in his work.
Gould had always been his own publisher, financing his ventures largely from the advance subscriptions for his works.
spencer.lib.ku.edu /exhibits/gould/life.htm   (474 words)

  
 Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Gould joins the faculty of the Political Science Department in the fall of 2002, replacing Curtis Cook, who has officially retired but continues to teach occasional courses.
Gould is a cum laude graduate of Williams College with a double major in Political Science and Studio Art.
Gould taught high school history at the Chapin School in New York from 1984 to 1986 and at the American School of Paris from 1989 to 1991.
www2.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/PS/Gould.htm   (217 words)

  
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English zoologist and first taxidermist of the Zoological Society of London, with headquarters at the British Museum, John Gould's chief interest proved to be in ornithology.
Gould visited America in 1857, and while at the Academy made a a pencil sketch of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo.
The notebook was originally started by John Gould, each page being devoted to one species and including sketches and notes on synonyms, biography, and anatomical details.
www.acnatsci.org /~spamer/gould71a.xml   (482 words)

  
 Prints by John Gould
Gould published more than forty large folio volume in a number of sets on different subjects.
Often Gould gave the artists who worked with him sketches of the birds in their natural habitats, which these artists then finished and lithographed onto the stones, hand-coloring each print once it was run off.
For their realism and vibrant hand-coloring, Gould's are some of the most beautiful bird prints ever produced.
www.philaprintshop.com /gould.html   (202 words)

  
 Discovering Democracy - John Gould Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Gould was born in England and visited Hobart in 1838 with his family.
The Gould League, a society for people who are interested in birds, was named after him.
John Gould's work is also honoured by his picture on a stamp.
www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/biographies/gould.htm   (148 words)

  
 Oldimprints.com: Natural History - Birds - John Gould Lithographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It was drawn and lithographed by J. Gould and H.C. Richter and printed by Walter.
I do not know which of Gould's many publications this was produced for, but it would date from approximately the mid 1800s.
From Gould's first published work, 'A century of birds hitherto unfigured from the Himalaya Mountains.' Plates from this work are recognizable from their uncolored backgrounds, an effect which sets the birds off beautifully and accents the attractiveness of the lithographic process.
www.oldimprints.com /prints/pgould.htm   (1361 words)

  
 John Gould, Birds of Australia, Lithographs, antique prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
ohn Gould's hand coloured folio size lithographs of birds along with Audubon's Havell edition of Birds of America are undoubtedly the finest bird art in existence.
Lear eventually left the partnership in a very ill humour, declaring Gould to be a harsh and violent man.
It was Gould's most successful series; 486 subscribers are listed in Gould's Introduction, published at the conclusion of the series in 1873.
www.nzbirds.com /Gould1.html   (2323 words)

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