Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death.The Pig.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by W Hawkins.
London, Published by Thomas Varty, Adelaide Street, Strand. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal.
A central illustration of a sow and piglets is surrounded by nine vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the pig, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms. Numbered 'Pl. 11' upper right.
[Ref: 10528] £240.00
London, Published by Thomas Varty, Adelaide Street, Strand. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal.
A central illustration of a sow and piglets is surrounded by nine vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the pig, in life and death (each captioned). Plate to 'Graphic Illustrations Of Animals', illustrated by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms. Numbered 'Pl. 11' upper right.
[Ref: 10528] £240.00