Background:

These prints are from the last work of the noted British ornithologist Henry Seebohm - Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds.  Following Seebohm's death in 1895 the task of completing the editing of this volume was left to R. Bowlder Sharpe of the British Museum.  It is interesting to note that Sharpe also assumed editorial responsibility for the Birds of Asia after the death of its artist - John Gould.