Daniel Giraud Elliot Animal Prints
American, 1835-1915
Daniel Giraud Elliot was born in New York, but later moved to Chicago to serve as Curator of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His great wealth and interest in ornithology enabled the production of a series of sumptuous color-plate books on birds, long after most publishers had turned to smaller formats and cheaper coloring techniques. Elliot commissioned the best bird artists of the day including Joseph Wolf and Josef Smit, both of whom had worked for John Gould. Although less expensive methods of color reproduction were in use when this monograph was published, Elliot required hand-colored lithographs. Fortunately, his independent fortune allowed him to produce his work on the lavish scale he desired. Elliots earlier monographs had hand-colored lithographs by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. However, J.T. Bowens’ widow closed the firm in 1869 and Elliot was forced to look outside the United States. He moved to Europe and had the plates for the rest of his books produced in Belgium, although he continued to use a New York imprint. The Monograph of Pheasants was originally issued in 6 parts between June 1870 and October 1872. Recent documentary evidence suggests that the lithograph stones to this work were destroyed after only 150 copies were taken (see Sothebys London, 5 June 2001).
Elliot made his intentions quite clear in the preface: "Since the time of Wilson and Audubon, no work has been published upon American Ornithology, containing life-size reproductions of the various species that have been discovered since the labors of those great men were finished… It was, therefore, with the desire to contribute, as might be in my power, towards the elucidation of the comparatively little known species of the Birds of North America, their habits and economy, as well as to render their forms familiar so far as life-size representations of them might serve to do, that I undertook the present publication." Elliot made the inspiration that his predecessors had provided even clearer by dedicating his Birds of North America to the memory of Alexander Wilson. to
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Artist: Daniel Giraud Elliot
Felis Rubiginosa (Rusty-Spotted Cat) /// Daniel Giraud Elliot Cat Tiger Lion Art
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Title: "Felis Rubiginosa (Rusty-Spotted Cat)" (Plate: XXIX - 29)
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