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The art of natural history : animal illustrators and their work / S. Peter Dance ; [edited, designed, and photographed by Ian Cameron].

Title
The art of natural history : animal illustrators and their work / S. Peter Dance ; [edited, designed, and photographed by Ian Cameron].
Author
Dance, S. Peter
Publication
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, ©1978.

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Cameron, Ian, 1937-2010
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some color); 35 cm
Summary
A survey of animal illustration from its origins through the periods of its finest achievement. -- Dust jacket.
Subject
  • Zoological illustration > History
  • Natural history in art
  • Art
  • Zoological illustration
  • Illustration zoologique
  • Illustration zoologique > Histoire
  • Art
  • fine arts (discipline)
  • works of art
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 213) and index.
Contents
The prehistory of animal art -- The early illustrated book -- Into the light -- A comedy of animals -- The nineteenth-century background -- The lithographic revolution -- Mirrors to ourselves -- Life! Life! Life! -- Through the microscope -- Going popular.
ISBN
  • 0879510773
  • 9780879510770
LCCN
78056076
OCLC
  • 4037018
  • SCSB-10181530
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library