Original Antique Print of a Wild Boar and a Lion, 1811

Reference
BG-13314-1
Maker
Samuel Howitt
Date
1811
Category
Engraving
Sheet size
19.6 x 25.0 cm (7.7 x 9.8 in)
Condition
Fair
Availability
Available
Price
EUR 270

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.

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