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Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death.

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death.The Sheep.

[London, Thomas Varty, n.d., c.1850.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 360 x 415mm (14¼ x 16¼"). Slight staining.
A central illustration of a ram, ewe and lamb is surrounded by ten vignette scenes depicting the commercial uses and relationship to man of the animal, in life and death (each captioned). From '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.
[Ref: 48545]  £240.00


 

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