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A fox, sitting on a tree trunk, is enticing a bear to poke its head in the hollow of the trunk, so as to trap the bear's head Wall Art
ART BY: Joseph Wolf
A fox, sitting on a tree trunk, is enticing a bear to poke its head in the hollow of the trunk, so as to trap the bear's head Wall Art
ART BY: Joseph Wolf
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A fox, sitting on a tree trunk, is enticing a bear to poke its head in the hollow of the trunk, so as to trap the bear's head is a steel engravings, prints by Joseph Wolf (1820–1899), dated 1853. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4265 × 6000 px (5.3 MB). Catalogued under Plants & Animals 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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