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Original Antique Print of a Wild Boar and a Lion, 1811
$305 (£230, €270)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1811
- Size
- 7.7 × 9.8 in (19.6 × 25 cm)
- Condition
- Fair. Shows wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_32030412
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.
