Archibald Thorburn
(1860–1935)

Scottish artist and animal painter and bird illustrator, painting mostly in watercolour

Archibald Thorburn

Works

Books illustrated by Thorburn include:

  • 1882 Sketches of Bird Life - J E Harting
  • 1883-88 Familiar Wild Birds - W.F. Swaysland (a Sussex naturalist and taxidermist), 144 plates, 4 volumes[1]
  • Powys, Baron Lilford, Thomas Littleton; Salvin, Osbert; Newton, Alfred; Keulemans, John Gerrard; Thorburn, Archibald (1885). Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands. London: R.H. Porter.  (in 7 volumes, 1885–1897) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 268 watercolours
  • 1895 Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar by Leonard Howard Loyd Irby[2]
  • 1915-16 British Birds - 4 volumes
  • 1920 British Mammals
  • 1920-25 The Birds of the British Isles and their eggs - Thomas Coward
  • 1937 Observer Book of British Birds
  • 1997 The Complete Illustrated Thorburn's Birds - Wordsworth Editions Ltd., ISBN 978-1-85326-492-4
  • Thorburn's mammals - text by Gordon Corbet, Wordsworth Editions Ltd., ISBN 1-85326-493-8


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1935, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
  1. ArtNet
  2. Irby, Leonard Howard Loyd (1895). The ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar.
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