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The Alderney Breed. Cow and Calf, the property of M. Brehaut, of Jersey.

The Alderney Breed. Cow and Calf, the property of M. Brehaut, of Jersey.Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.

Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published October, 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13"), with wide margins.
From Professor David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low (1786-1859), professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
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