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During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.

Hirra Ateeq tells the story of Eleazar Albin, a naturalist and watercolour teacher whose popular books depicted birds, insects and spiders.

Why did the artist Lady Kathleen Stannus Robertson choose Bushy House, home of the National Physical Laboratory, as the subject for a series of drawings? Ellen Embleton investigates.

Katherine Marshall is impressed by the work of female paleoartists, including Ethel Seeley and sisters Gertrude and Alice Woodward.

Inspired by goings-on in his garden, Rupert Baker hunts for squirrel images in the collections of the Royal Society Library.

91TV's Keith Moore examines the illustrations found in Thomas Bewick's books on nature.

A peek into a colourful ornithological work from the nineteenth century, including the contributions made by John and Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear.

Keith Moore takes a close look at the work of extraordinary microscope artists, from Robert Hooke to Philip Henry Gosse and John Denis Macdonald.

Keith Moore finds some delightful sea-fairies tucked into the back of a 1935 volume on British sea anemones by Thomas Alan Stephenson FRS.

Keith Moore admires the work of natural history illustrator George Edwards, and discovers how some of the specimens he depicted were captured en route to the collections of a French courtesan.