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Four Pheasants by JOSEPH WOLF

Creator: JOSEPH WOLF
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
WOLF, JOSEPH (ARTIST).
Four Pheasants
Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants.
Stock Code 108589
London For the Author, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street 1871
£10,000
A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, born in New York in 1835, was active in London for 10 years from 1869 publishing his monographs on pheasants and birds of paradise. He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union. His luxurious books are notable for using the finest bird artists and lithographers of the time.

Four original hand-coloured lithographic plates by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.
Framed and glazed, overall size: 72cm by 58.5cm by 4.5cm.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1871
Styles / Movements:	Other
Dealer Reference #:	108589
Incollect Reference #:	650175

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