Plates from Anton Seder’s 1896 work “Das Thier Der Decorativen Kunst.” Decorative arted up animals doing odd things.
Tag: Animals in art
Paintings of the First Nations in the Canadian West. A buffalo too but he fits right in. Frederick Arthur Vener, artist (1836-1928).
Sold Buffalo by the River. 1906. Canadian. Watercolor. Frederick Arthur Vener, painter (1836-1928). Image © Mayberry Fine Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://mayberryfineart.com/artist/frederick-arthur-verner/
Indian and Canoe. By 1928. Canadian. Watercolor on paper, Image © Mayberry Fine Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://mayberryfineart.com/art/indian-and-canoe-frederick-arthur-verner-3799/
Pretty pigeons from 1906, taken from Emil Schachtzabel’s “Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Tauben-rassen.” Schachtzabel was a government worker who also loved pigeons.
Toucans from John Gould’s 1833 work “A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans.” Published in London by C. Hullmandel. Lithographic plates from drawings by Edward Lear and John Gould and Elizabeth Gould which were then hand colored by or under the supervision of Gabriel Bayfield.
Victorian era animal pictures, taken from the 1840s “The Naturalist’s Library” which was edited by Sir William Jardine. Hand-colored engraved plates by W. H. Lizars. Taken from a current Sotheby’s auction.
Cows in summer. American. Thomas Bigelow Craig, painter. Living from 1849 to 1924, sometimes he painted sheep, too. Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Cattle on a country road. Undated, by 1924. American. Oil on canvas. Thomas Bigelow Craig, painter (1849-1924). Signed Thos. B. Craig on the lower left. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2022, Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4559006
19th century birds painted by Danish artist Niels Peter Rasmussen. Living from 1847 to 1918, he also painted portraits and flowers.
Lithographs of Victorian cats, taken from Daniel Giraud Elliot’s “A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of Cats” which was printed in London by Taylor and Francis between 1878 and 1883. All of these being part of one lot in a current Sotheby’s sale.
More depictions of animals, these being paintings in oil on panel. Mostly sheep, ducks and chickens but some cattle too. Belgian. Franz van Severdonck, artist (1809-1889).
Cows by American artist William Henry Howe. Living from 1846 to 1929, he won a medal at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (The White City).
“Lyme Pastures.” 1920. American. Signed and dated on the lower left. Currently located at the Dallas Museum of Art. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Howe_-Lyme_Pastures(1920).jpg
