- Title:
- Once a Week Vol.2
- Object name(s):
- Prints1860s
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1923
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 105
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 130
- Material:
- Wood engraving mounted on grey card
- Object name:
- Prints1860s
- Object number:
- PL4884
- Object production date:
- 1860
- Date - association:
- Publication date
- Object production date:
- 1860
- Date - association:
- year of production
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1860
- Object production person:
- Joseph Wolf
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter, printmaker and illustrator. Served an apprenticeship with the Becker Brothers, lithographers in Koblenz, 1836-39. He then worked as a lithographer whilst also studying art at Darmstadt and Antwerp. He moved to London in 1848 where he established a career as a wildlife artist specialising in birds and for a while in the 1860s shared his studio with the illustrator Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814-1876). In 1851 he was appointed official artist for the Zoological Society of London. He illustrated numerous publications for scientists such as John Gould, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, and for explorers including the African memoirs of Dr Livingstone
- Person's birth date:
- 1820
- Person's death date:
- 1899
- Person's forenames:
- Joseph
- Person's place of birth:
- Germany, Koblenz, Morz
- Person's place of death:
- London
- Person's surname:
- Wolf
- Object production place:
- UK, England
- Owner:
- Puttick and Simpson Auctioneers, Leicester Square, London
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints1860s
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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