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I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" Wall Art
ART BY: J. J. Grandville
I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" Wall Art
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About this artwork
I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" is a wood engraving by J. J. Grandville (1803–1847), dated 1852. The artist is catalogued as French. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2613 × 3625 px. It is filed under Prints and Romanticism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 440 works by J. J. Grandville, a French artist.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard was a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville ( ), and numerous variations throughout his career.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by J. J. Grandville →
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I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
