Thursday, March 5, 2009

Zoolgical Litographs

I have these two lithographs in my personal collection. The one above was printed in 1810 and the one below was printed in 1814. In studying older zoological lithographs you often have to wonder, or interpret what the artist was depicting. Example the print below by W. Panormo is titled, The White or Silver Lions? Maybe he was a showman instead of a zoologist? Possibly they were Indian or Gir Forest Lions given the lighter, shorter mane. Who knows what he was describing or attempting to depict.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://www.whitelions.org/