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The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 23½ × 19½ in, original size
- Format
- Folio
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$225
Limited edition of 250
€200 incl. VAT in the EU
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Reproduced from the original in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
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A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from the plate in the Teylers Museum’s copy of A Monograph of the Felidae, Haarlem.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
Five lions gather at a pool. In front, a dark-maned male stands square to the viewer and a lighter-maned male crouches in the grass beside him, both looking straight out of the picture; to the right a lioness bends to drink, while a frog kicks away through the water. Further back, on a rocky rise beside a tree, another male roars with a lioness at his side. Elliot opened his book of cats with the lion. Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, named in the lettering, drew and lithographed all of its plates.
The Lion (Felis leo) is plate 1 of A Monograph of the Felidae by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1878–1883). Today the species is known as the Lion. This facsimile is made from the copy in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and printed at the size of the original sheet, 23½ × 19½ in (60 × 49.5 cm).
About the original
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915), the American zoologist, published A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats between 1878 and 1883: 43 hand-coloured lithographs of the wild cats, drawn by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, on sheets of about 60 x 49.5 cm.
The complete set in Teylers Museum in Haarlem was scanned for Heritage Prints inside the museum.
- Title
- A Monograph of the Felidae
- Published
- 1878-1883
- Format
- Folio
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 43 prints
