Joseph Smit

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Not to be confused with Joseph Smith.
A lithograph of a rabbit produced by Joseph Smit

Joseph Smit (18 July 1836 – 4 November 1929) was a Dutch zoological illustrator.[1][2]

Background

Northern tent tortoise illustration, 188

Smit was born in Lisse.[2] He received his first commission from Hermann Schlegel at the Leiden Museum to work on the lithographs for a book on the birds of the Dutch East Indies. In 1866 he was invited to Britain by Philip Sclater to do the lithography for Sclater's Exotic Ornithology; he prepared a hundred images for the book.[3]

He also did the lithography for his friend

Lord Lilford
's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.

Smit contributed illustrations to

J.G. Keulemans.[5] He also provided many of the illustrations of dinosaurs and other fossil creatures for the popular book Extinct Monsters (1892) by Henry Neville Hutchinson
.

He died in his home on Cobden Hill, Radlett, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom on 4 November 1929 at age 93.[2]

Family

His son Pierre Jacques Smit (born October 1863 at Leiderdorp – 1960), who used the name Peter Smit, was also a zoological illustrator.[6]

Works to which Joseph Smit contributed

  • Exotic Ornithology Sclater & Salvin, 1869
  • Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum
  • The Ibis
  • Monograph of the Phasianidae Elliot, 1872
  • A Monograph of the Paradiseidae Elliot, 1873
  • Jottings during the Cruise of the H.M.S. Curacoa Brenchley
  • Survey of Western Palestine Tristram
  • Zoological Sketches Wolf
  • The Book of Antelopes
  • Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
  • Transactions of the Zoological Society of London
  • Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles Lilford
  • Extinct Monsters Hutchinson, 1892

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780894790447
    .
  2. ^ a b c (in Dutch) L.B. Holthuis, Leiden, (1958, 1995) Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 1820 - 1958. page 47. reprint manuscript, PDF.
  3. ^ Wheye, Darryl; Kennedy, Donald (2008). Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens. Yale University Press. p. 137.
  4. ^ "Joseph Smit". Cornell University. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  5. ^ Campbell, Bruce; Lack, Elizabeth (1985). A Dictionary of Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. p. 301.
  6. ^ "Soffer Ornithology Collection Notes". The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibralter (sic) by Leonard Howard Lloyd Irby. Amherst College Library. Retrieved 1 May 2013.

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