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Dutch wildlife illustrator
Joseph Smit
(18 July 1836 ? 4 November 1929) was a Dutch zoological
illustrator
.
[1]
[2]
Background
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Smit was born in
Lisse
.
[2]
He received his first commission from
Hermann Schlegel
at the
Leiden Museum
to work on the lithographs for a book on the birds of the Dutch East Indies. In 1866 he was invited to
Britain
by
Philip Sclater
to do the lithography for Sclater's
Exotic Ornithology
; he prepared a hundred images for the book.
[3]
He also did the lithography for his friend
[4]
Joseph Wolf
's
Zoological Sketches
, as well as
Daniel Giraud Elliot
's monographs on the
Phasianidae
and
Paradisaeidae
. Beginning in the 1870s, he worked on the
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
(1874?1898, edited by
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
), and later on
Lord Lilford
's
Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands
.
Smit contributed illustrations to
John Gould
's books on birds of different parts of the world, along with leading
Victorian era
wildlife artists including Wolf,
Edward Lear
,
William Hart
,
Henry Constantine Richter
and
J.G. Keulemans
.
[5]
He also provided many of the illustrations of dinosaurs and other fossil creatures for the popular book
Extinct Monsters
(1892) by
Henry Neville Hutchinson
.
He died in his home on Cobden Hill,
Radlett
,
Hertfordshire
, United Kingdom on 4 November 1929 at age 93.
[2]
Family
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His son
Pierre Jacques Smit
(born October 1863 at Leiderdorp ? 1960), who used the name Peter Smit, was also a zoological illustrator.
[6]
Works to which Joseph Smit contributed
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- Exotic Ornithology
Sclater & Salvin, 1869
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
- The Ibis
- Monograph of the Phasianidae
Elliot, 1872
- A Monograph of the Paradiseidae
Elliot, 1873
- Jottings during the Cruise of the H.M.S. Curacoa
Brenchley
- Survey of Western Palestine
Tristram
- Zoological Sketches
Wolf
- The Book of Antelopes
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
- Transactions of the Zoological Society of London
- Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles
Lilford
- Extinct Monsters
Hutchinson, 1892
See also
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References
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- ^
Skipwith, P (1979).
The great bird illustrators and their art, 1730-1930
. A & W Publishers.
ISBN
9780894790447
.
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a
b
c
(in Dutch)
L.B. Holthuis, Leiden, (1958, 1995)
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 1820 - 1958
. page 47.
reprint manuscript, PDF
.
- ^
Wheye, Darryl; Kennedy, Donald (2008).
Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens
. Yale University Press. p. 137.
- ^
"Joseph Smit"
. Cornell University
. Retrieved
1 May
2014
.
- ^
Campbell, Bruce; Lack, Elizabeth (1985).
A Dictionary of Birds
. London: T & AD Poyser. p. 301.
- ^
"Soffer Ornithology Collection Notes"
.
The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibralter (sic) by Leonard Howard Lloyd Irby
. Amherst College Library
. Retrieved
1 May
2013
.
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