Price: $750.00
SKU: 49869
ARTIST: Joseph Wolf
PUBLISHER: Published by Henry Graves & Co., London.
MEDIUM: Chromolithograph finished by hand,
DATE: 1861
EDITION SIZE: Image size, 9 1/4 x 13 1/8" (233 x 347 mm).
DESCRIPTION: Printed by Vincent, Brooks Lith. From Wolf's "Zoological Sketches," made for the Zoological Society of Londonfrom Animals in their Vivarium, in the Regents' Park. Edited by Philip Lutley Sclater. Published by Henry Graves & Co., London, 1861. The superbly drawn and highly colored lithographs in this work are the finest examples of Wolf's skills as an animal illustrator. In David Knight's Zoological Illustration, Wolf is described as "perhaps the finest of all illustrators of natural history." He "had a firm grasp of anatomy, and had carefully and lovingly observed wild animals so that his pictures are both accurate and valuable from the zoological point of view, and also very lifelike." Born in Prussia, Wolf emigrated to England in 1848. He spent many years working with ornithological artist John Gould and had a continuing relationship with the Zoological Society. [Knight, Zool. Illus., 163-4. Mackenzie, Brit. Prints, 353]
ADDITIONAL INFO: Chromolithograph is tipped in to a printed support sheet.
CONDITION: Fine condition.
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