Joseph Wolf & Henry C. Richter "Astur Palumbarius (Goshawk)" Vintage 16x22 Lithograph from John Gould's Book "The Birds of Great Britain"

Vintage lithograph measures 16" x 22" in size. The lithograph is from the artwork that Joseph Wolf & Henry C. Richter did for John Gould's Book "The Birds of Great Britain", published in 1873. See photos for details regarding the condition of the lithograph. 

Joseph Wolf (January 21, 1820 – April 20, 1899) was a German artist who specialized innatural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates. Wolf depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art. Sir Edwin Landseer thought him "...without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived"'.

Henry C. Richter's earliest bird paintings were two plates published in George Robert Gray's Genera of birds (1844–49). These plates depicted owls and Clapperton's francolin and attracted the attention of ornithologists. In 1841 he was contacted by John Gould, who required assistance after the death of his wife Elizabeth. Richter produced about 3000 lithographic plates and watercolours for his employer. In his will, John Gould wrote "I bequeath to my Artist H C Richter a legacy of £100 as a kind remembrance for the purchase of a ring or any other article that he may prefer." His only work after Gould's death was for the Birds of Asia and a plate for Sir Richard Owen's Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand.

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