Great Sparrow Gallery

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) (hand-coloured litho)

1773124 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) (hand-coloured litho) by Gould, John (1804-81) (after); Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Illustration from The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, printed in London, 1862-73.
Most plates engraved by H. Richter.); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; English, out of copyright

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Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene, 1347. Creator: Wang Yuan (Chinese, c. 1299-after 1366)

Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene, 1347. The flower-and-bird subjects here are depicted in a careful and meticulous manner, echoing the academic tradition but translating the customary coloured images to plain monochrome. Fine ink lines combined with carefully graded washes define the contours and give subtle modeling to the natural forms. Wang Yuan from Qiantang (Hangzhou) excelled in flower-and-bird subjects as well as landscape and figure paintings. A child prodigy, he was instructed by the great Yuan master Zhao Mengfu at an early age

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Great Exhibition

Waiting for Queen Victoria to arrive at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace. The glass and iron building was designed by Joseph Paxton and initially erected in Hyde Park, London. Elm trees were incorporated into the structure, along with sparrows and sparrow hawks to control them. Original Artwork: From Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)