Discusses the lives and achievements of sixteen amateur naturalists who produced etchings for illustrated books about birds.

Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1866

Arts & Photography

Jackson, Christine E.

Graphic Design

NCROL

Discusses the lives and achievements of sixteen amateur naturalists who produced etchings for illustrated books about birds

Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and Their Books, 1655-1855

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Cornell University Press

Pp 155 + 14 colored plates reproducing the work of the most noted bird illustrators. Black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. There are 14 chapters on the following 19th century ornithological illustrators: William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Henry Leonard Meyer, Josef Wolf, Joseph Smit, John Gerrard Keulemans, Edward Neale, William Foster, Claude Wilmott Wyatt, Frederick William Frohawk, Henrik Gronvold, Archibald Thorburn, and George Edward Lodge.

Bird illustrators: Some artists in early lithography

H.F. & G. Witherby

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Collecting Bird Stamps, hardcover, Very Good, 118 pages, illustrated.

Collecting bird stamps

Witherby

Wood engravings of birds

Menageries in Britain 1100–2000 traces the history of menageries (‘…a collection of wild animals in cages or enclosures especially one kept for exhibition... in zoological gardens or a travelling show. Also the place…where they are kept…’) in five sections: Royal Menageries, Travelling and Commercial Menageries, Private Menageries and Aviaries, Dealers and the Twentieth Century. The book begins with Royal Menageries and takes its starting point from the first recorded collection of animals in England, that of Henry I. The history of subsequent royal collections, held predominantly at the Tower of London, is followed, ending with the Windsor Menagerie being given to the Zoological Society of London after Queen Victoria’s death. Travelling and Commercial Menageries, which started in the Seventeenth Century with the rapid increase in Britain’s overseas trading, developed from sideshows at inns and fairs into the large travelling animal shows of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. They lingered on into the early Twentieth Century, usually associated with circuses. Another form of the Commercial Menagerie, the static, was also very popular in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Wombwell’s, Ballards’s, Polito’s and Bostock’s menageries were great public attractions based permanently in London, although they also provided animals for menageries that travelled in the summer. The development of large private menageries, the majority owned by enthusiastic aristocrats, is traced to its peak in the late Nineteenth Century and finishes with the last example, that of Lord Rothschild, in the early Twentieth Century. The interactions of these private collections and the development of the science of Zoology, together with the establishment of scientific collections, are also considered. The rise of dealers to support the increased interest in animal collecting and their association with the major ports of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries is charted, as is their input to animal husbandry and science, particularly scientific illustration. Many of Thomas Bewick’s wood engravings were made from studies of animals in dealers’ as well as travelling menageries. The book concludes with an overview of the Twentieth Century and the changed attitudes to displaying and keeping animals, safari parks and the emphasis on conservation and not merely on entertainment.

Menageries in Britain 1100–2000 (Volume 175) (Ray Society Publications)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Ray Society

Great Bird Paintings of the World: The Old Masters

Painting

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

In this second volume of a five-part series Christine Jackson illustrates works by major artists of the period, including Pieter Casteels, Marmaduke Cradock, Willem Frederick van Royen, Tobias Stranover, Jakob Bogdani and Abraham Bisschop. She not only discusses the artists and their frequent use of symbolism in the paintings, but also gives us many fascinating glimpses into bird behaviour. The combination of the author's scholarly research and ornithological knowledge has cast new light on this subject and the result is a book which will appeal to everyone interested in art and ornithology.

Bird Painting: The Eighteenth Century

Contains 4,000-plus entries for artists throughout the world who created two-dimensional portraits of birds. Bringing together the painters in different media, Jackson (former librarian who has made a study of birds, artists, and illustrators) provides dates and biographical information and includes the illustrators and craftsmen who created pictures for decorative purposes, such as prints in books and designs for postage stamps, tiles, and ceramics. The appendix provides a survey of each country's major bird artists and illustrators, as well as a list of artists arranged by country. Contains 200 color paintings and illustrations, plus numerous b&amp;w prints. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World

Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds (Art of Nature)

Stone, Sarah

Merrell Publishers

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