Printers
Charles Mintern
 (1842 – c. 1910)
and
Robert Mintern
 (1840 – 1908)
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


The Mintern Brothers was a prominent firm of chromolithographers and printers based in Bloomsbury, London. They specialized in producing high-quality, hand-colored or color-printed scientific plates, particularly for 19th-century ornithological, zoological, and natural history works.

They are famous for producing the John Gould Lithographs: magnificent illustrations of birds and birds of paradise, drawn and lithographed by artists like William Matthew Hart.

They produced prints for major scientific publications and expeditions, collaborating closely with other notable natural history artists and entomologists including

  • Frederic C. Moore,
  • Rothschild,
  • Arthur Butler,
  • John Gerrard Keulemans, and
  • George Hampson,

    Copies of some illustrations by the Mintern Brothers used in this website -


    Decticryptis deleta

    Hyposada postvittata

    Periscepta butleri

    Plecoptera quaesita

    Anthela exoleta

    Paramsacta gangara

    Utetheisa aegrotum

    Miscera homotona

    Synemon collecta

    Synemon selene

    Arsacia rectalis

    Attonda trifasciata

    Earias luteolaria

    Lophothripa vitea

    Maurilia iconica

    Trismelasmos donovani


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    (written 10 August 2026, updated 20 October 2026)