page_title: Archibald Thorburn
section_title: Books illustrated
hierarchical_section_title: Archibald Thorburn / Books illustrated
caption_attribution_description: Dormice (see Muscardinus avellanarius). Signed and dated Archibald Thorburn/1903. Watercolour and bodycolour, 25 x 19.5 cm
context_page_description: Archibald Thorburn FZS was a Scottish artist that specialised in wildlife, painting mostly in watercolour. He regularly visited Scotland to sketch birds in the wild, his favourite haunt being the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in Invernesshire. His widely reproduced images of British wildlife, with their evocative and dramatic backgrounds, are enjoyed as much today as they were by naturalists a century ago.
context_section_description: 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
  1885-97 Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles - Lord Lilford, 268 watercolours, 7 volumes
  1895 Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar by Leonard Howard Loyd Irby
  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
caption: Dormice, 1903
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