Chicago-based designer Nicholas Rougeux is fascinated by early encyclopedic publications, and most recently, he took an interest in ornithologist John Gould’s 'A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds," restoring hundreds of the 19th-century illustrations.

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Nicholas Rougeux Painstakingly Restores Hundreds of 19th-Century Hummingbird Illustrations — Colossal

Designer Nicholas Rougeux digitally reproduces ornithologist John Gould's 'A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds.'

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