- 1991 First Edition. 128 pages
- Published by Collins & Brown Ltd. London
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Red Boards. Large book - approx 36cm long x 26 cm wide.
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Minor foxing to end papers.
With 60 full colour plates. Indexed.
From the Palaeolitihc age to the present, mammals have been a source of fascination and inspiration for artists. Mammals are portrayed in cave paintings many thousands of years old, in austere Renaissance woodcuts, in copper engravings from the eighteenth century and exquisitely coloured lithographs from the nineteenth century.
Reproduced here is a selection of coloured prints taken mostly from priceless, rare books not widely avaliable.
Arranged chronologically, Classic Natural History Prints: Mammals begins with a 1734 engraving of hedgehogs from Seba's Thesaurus and ends with a 1906 print of three whales from Millais's Mammals of Great Britain. Sandwiched between them are prints portraying domestic and exotic mammals of all kinds.
The selection of prints includes the workd of both little-known artists - such as J.C. Werner and Thomas Brown - and celebrities such as John James Audubon and John Gould. Highly imaginative engraving sof sloths and red howler monkeys may be compared with marvellously evocative lithographs of members of the cat family by Joseph Wolf, possibly the most accompolished of all wildlife artists of the nineteenth century.
This beautiful volume shows the variety with which artists portrayed mammals in the days before photography. It will surprise and delight lovers of wildlife and animal art alike.
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