Mammals · 19th century
€ 270
One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.
Shows wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Antique print titled 'Wild Boar and Lion'. Old print of a wild boar and a lion. This print originates from a series depicting fables by Samuel Howitt. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors.
A lion and wild boar fight while vultures circle above. Wild boar and lion. Illustration of a Greek fable. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved from life by Samuel Howitt from his own A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, Edward Orme, London, 1811.
