Not just ‘for the birds’

Nicholas Rougeux - a Chicago-based designer and data artist, has restored John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds, considered one of the finest examples of ornithological illustration ever produced. It was published between 1848 & 1887 and contains hand-coloured lithographic depictions of almost every single hummingbird species known to exist at the time.