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A fox is pleading before the lion dressed as king while an execution of a fox takes place outside Wall Art
ART BY: Joseph Wolf
A fox is pleading before the lion dressed as king while an execution of a fox takes place outside Wall Art
ART BY: Joseph Wolf
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A fox is pleading before the lion dressed as king while an execution of a fox takes place outside is a steel engravings, prints by Joseph Wolf (1820–1899), dated 1853. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4295 × 6000 px (5.1 MB). It is filed under Prints and Academic, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 221 works by Joseph Wolf, a British artist.
Joseph Wolf was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Joseph Wolf →
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