Painted oranges and pears too but I like these better. Also they are big enough to use here.
Fruit and bird art. Spanish, painted in oils by artist Miguel Canals (1925-1995).
Tag: Animals in art
Mostly mother and baby animal art. Some with no babies, just friends. Victorian, painted by John Frederick Herring Sr. Living from 1796 to 1865, he painted a lot of horses too which are in a different post on this blog. Then as now people just love animal art.
“Hawaiian Fishes”. Published in 1905 in Honolulu by the Island Curio Company. David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann with Illustrations attributed to A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson and Kako Morita. More fishes from what I think was an earlier or later edition, too.
The illustrations from the copy of Hawaiian Fishes with the red cover are reproduced from selected images appearing in The shore fishes of the Hawaiian Islands with a general account of the fish fauna, by David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann (part 1 of The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands, published between 1905 and 1906; based on specimens collected by the United States Fish Commission during the 1902 expedition of the steamer Albatross)
Illustrations attributed to A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson and Kako Morita, based on their names appearing as illustrator on similar plates in The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. The images are taken from a scanned version in the Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives, it is available on the Internet Archive.
Also a few more fish from what looks to be a different edition of the same Hawaiian Fishes but with the cover being blue not red. These having been found up for sale by the rare book dealer James A. Arsenault with the description on their website stating that:
This appealing souvenir book, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904, reproduces illustrations made by A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson (who was actually in Honolulu in 1901, sketching local fish), and the Japanese painter Kako Morita. According to the promotional information on the rear paste-down, the Aquarium typically displayed “600 to 1000 fishes of approximately 200 varieties. Those shown in the pictures published herewith are only a few of the most striking specimens.” These illustrations include the “Humuhumu,” the state fish of Hawaii, alongside several other fish native to Hawaii’s waters. Unlike the scientific captions accompanying The Aquatic Resources’ illustrations, this collection presents the fish with their Hawaiian names, with occasional comments on the peculiarity of fish in Hawaii. The promotional material contends that “[l]anguage cannot do this subject [Hawaii’s fish] justice. No words can accurately portray what one has seen here. The fish are odd in shape and have all the hues of the rainbow. The tints are laid on as if with a brush and yet no painter could imitate them. No visitor to Honolulu should fail to see the Aquarium.” The promotion further notes that the Aquarium “is visited by about 50,000 persons annually” who are each charged “[a]n admission fee of 25 cents’’ to assist with “operating, enlarging and improving the exhibit.” The fish of the Aquarium, once pictured by the Island Curio Co., “became mass commodities in a visual economy of images that linked Hawai‘i with America and Europe” (“Extended Personhood”).
As far as I can determine I haven’t used these chromolithographs before. I’ve found them on their website before and it is it’s own post. Should I be mistaken well these are fun images and I for one am happy to see them again with new fish to add to the school.
1897 images of cranes taken from Frans Ernst Blaauw (F. E. Blaauw)’s work “A Monograph of the Cranes” which had a number of contributors and illustrators too. Published in London and in Leiden.
“Album Comique. Concert des Artistes Papillons. Executant le Grand Air de la Muette.” Musical anthropomorphic insects playing all sorts of musical instruments rendered in watercolor and pen and ink. Late 19th c. Guillaume Berra. Up for sale with White Fox Rare Books.
Plates from Anton Seder’s 1896 folio “Das Thier Der Decorativen Kunst.” Decorative arted up animals doing odd things.
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.
