George Edwards

About The Artist

Art by George Edwards George Edwards, 1694 – 1773. Edwards was an English naturalist, an ornithologist, and known as “father of British ornithology”. He traveled Europe studying natural history, and became reputed for his colored drawings of birds and animals.

Edwards was appointed librarian to the Royal College of Physicians in London. He published History of Birds and Gleanings of Natural History in the 1760’s. They contained engravings and descriptions of more than 600 subjects in natural history not before described or delineated. He added a general index in French and English, which was afterwards supplied with Linnaean names. Additional writings include Essays of Natural History (1770) and Elements of Fossilogy (1776).

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George Edwards

About The Artist

Whistling Duck

Water Bird

Two Birds & A Butterfly

Two Birds

The Sloth

The Golden Plover & The Spurwinged Plover

The Crested Coot & White Sheathbill

The Cinereous Phalarope & Red Phalarope

The Buzzard

The Black Maucauco from Madagascar

Spur-ringed Water Hen

Shomburger from the Spanish West Indies

Mustelus Spinax, Bellonii & Insect called the Walking Stick

Lizard & Egg

Little Bush-tailed Monkey from Surinam

Icheneumon

Guillemot & the Puffin of the Isle of Man

Grey Pye of Brasil & the Black and Yellow Moth from China

Black Hawk From Hudson’s Bay

Bird From China

Bengallean Bustard

An Animal from the Spanish Main in America