Lot 7088: Joseph Wolf - Rare lithograph of Saker Falcon 1861
Joseph Wolf
This scarce hand-colored lithograph is from Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf and edited by Philip Sclater. Published by Henry Graves and Co. London 1861.
Drawn by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by Joseph Smit heightened with gum Arabic, mounted on titled card as issued.
Joseph Wolf is widely considered the most accomplished bird artist working in London during the mid-19th century. Born in Germany, Wolf began his career as a lithographer’s apprentice. When he came to England, he began working in the natural history department of the British Museum, illustrating George Robert Gray’s Genera of Birds. He was the first significant bird artist to publish illustrations in scientific journals, dozens of which appeared in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society of London and The Ibis. Other important bird books to which he contributed were John Gould’s The Birds of Asia (1850-1883) and The Birds of Great Britain (1862-73).
Joseph Smit was a Dutch lithographer of natural history subjects. He is perhaps best known for his lithographs after Joseph Wolf, including Philip Sclater’s Zoological Sketches (1861-67) and Daniel Giraud Elliott’s 1873 monographs on the Phasianeidae (pheasants) and Paradiseida (birds of paradise).
Size: 9.75in x 14in (25cm x 35.5cm)
Condition report:
Very good with some age related marks - please inspect images carefully
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