Edward Donovan (1768–1837)

An Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist that is well known for his naturalist prints. 

Donovan was an avid collector of natural history specimens purchased mainly at auctions of specimens from voyages of exploration and a very successful author of a number of natural history titles. Such titles include: Natural History of British Birds (1792–97), Natural History of British Insects (1792–1813), Natural History of British Fishes (1802–08) and the two-volume Descriptive Excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire in the Year 1804, and the Four Preceding Summers (1805) and the short-lived Botanical Review, or the Beauties of Flora (London, 1789–90).

He also wrote articles on Conchology, Entomology etc., made drawings and arranged the natural history plates in Rees's Cyclopædia and undertook commissions for private albums of his botanical artwork.