Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) - Bear and Mongoose - a pair

A pair (one signed) of studies of animals by English artist Samuel Howitt (1756-1822), painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, specialising in hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors. He was for a time a drawing master at Samuel Goodenough's school in Ealing. In 1783, he exhibited 3 coloured drawings of hunting subjects with the Incorporated Society of Artists. From time to time he continued to exhibit there and at the Royal Academy. For the most part confining himself to sporting subjects and illustrations of natural history, which were carefully executed, spirited and truthful.

He is most well known for his "A New Work of Animals", a series of copper engravings in quarto format “principally designed from the fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus”, 1811, a second editin of whihc was published in 1818. His plates were also republished after his death.

Size shown is for the images. The frame size is 29x35cm.

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