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[Sir Richard Owen.]
H.J. Thaddeus 1889 [in plate lower left.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters on india laid paper, 660 x 460mm (26 x 18"), with very large margins. Artist's initials in pencil in margin as signature? Uncut.
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. His right hand rests on a dinosaur skull. From the mid 1830s the leading British comparative anatomist; one of the most formidable opponents of evolutionary theories, which he disputed with Huxley. He was superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, and designed new natural history galleries at South Kensington. After Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus (1860-1929). A fellow of the Royal Geographical society, he often painted portraits on commission, including two for Pope Pius X. He wrote an autobiography, 'Recollections of a Court Painter', during his retirement in California (although he died on the Isle of Wight).
Wellcome: 2197-15. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 47317] £520.00
H.J. Thaddeus 1889 [in plate lower left.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters on india laid paper, 660 x 460mm (26 x 18"), with very large margins. Artist's initials in pencil in margin as signature? Uncut.
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. His right hand rests on a dinosaur skull. From the mid 1830s the leading British comparative anatomist; one of the most formidable opponents of evolutionary theories, which he disputed with Huxley. He was superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, and designed new natural history galleries at South Kensington. After Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus (1860-1929). A fellow of the Royal Geographical society, he often painted portraits on commission, including two for Pope Pius X. He wrote an autobiography, 'Recollections of a Court Painter', during his retirement in California (although he died on the Isle of Wight).
Wellcome: 2197-15. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 47317] £520.00