| Description | From Joseph Wolf, Zoological sketches: made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park (London: 1861-1867) plate XXXVIII. One of 100 plates commissioned by the Zoological Society in 1852 to provide 'an accurate artistic record of the living form and expression of the many rare species of animals which exist from time to time in the menagerie'. Sir Edwin Landseer described Wolf as "without exception, the best all-round animal painter that ever lived". |
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