Common seagull or mew gull shown swimming in a green sea.Larus canusEdward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist; writer; artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds; fish; shells and insects; opened his own museum of natural history in London; but later he fell on hard times and died penniless.Handcolored copperplate engraving from Edward Donovan's 鈥楾he Natural History of British Birds' (1794-1819)