1808年《霍威特动物蚀刻铜版画集》-铜版画爱好者苦恋花

Author: Howitt, Samuel（1756/57-1822）；
Title: Howitt's Miscellaneous Etchings, Old and New
书名：《荷威特动物蚀刻铜版画集》1808年
著者：
Samuel Howitt（英）塞缪尔·豪威特；
出版商：
Published by John Scott, London，1808
（[London] : Publish'd by John Scott 442 Strand, March 1, 1806.）
版本/文字：
英文；国图未见著录；
描述：
Containing 45 of 50 plates.（Pages 1,2庄雯如 ,3,37 and 49 are missing.）
注：
全书应50幅铜版画，缺扉页等5幅，用1812年新版扉页当参考图；（本人另藏1部全书）；
注1：
the earliest being 1792.This book is 1801(1808魔女之刃 ?)；
(Some other book edition of the prints are dated considerably earlier than 1812 (the date of the published collection)).
注2：
Associated Title: Howitt's Miscellaneous Etchings
Book Description: A scarcecollection of animal etchings designed by Samuel Howitt. Containing 45 of 50 plates. SamuelHowitt was an Englih painter, illustrator and etcher, particularly of animals andanimal sports scenes, such as hunting and horseracing. Pages 1,2徐菁遥 ,3,37 and 49 are missing.
注3：
containing 50 etchings numbered 1 to 50 mainly of animal subjects with two views of medieval ruins, bound with etched titlepage showing title surrounded by ivy.
1808. First edition. 50 fine etchings of animals by Howitt. First impressions.
主题：Howitt, Samuel, -- 1765?-1822.Etching.Animals in art.

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Samuel Howitt (1756/57–1822)was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting,horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors.
Life and work：
Howittwas a member of an old Nottinghamshire Quaker family. In early life he lived atChigwell, near Epping Forest, Essex, wasfinancially independent and devoted himself to field sports. However he raninto financial difficulties and was obliged to turn to art as a profession -which up until then he had engaged in as a talented amateur.
Comingto London, hewas for a time a drawing master at Samuel Goodenough's school in Ealing. In1783, he exhibited 3 coloured drawings of hunting subjects with theIncorporated Society of Artists. From time to time he continued to exhibitthere and at the Royal Academy神蜂精 , beginning in1784 with a hunting piece, followed in 1785 by two landscapes - "A view ofthe ruins of an abbey" and "Fairlop Oak". In 1793 he showed"Jaques and the Deer" and "A Fox Hunt"; in 1794,"Smugglers alarmed"; in 1800, two pictures titled "Deer";in 1814 "Dead game"; and in 1815, "Bella, horrida Bella".Heprobably exhibited so little because he was in such demand as a commercialillustrator.
Howittworked both in oils and water-colours, for the most part confining himself tosporting subjects and illustrations of natural history, which were carefullyexecuted, spirited and truthful. These, as Howitt represented in his New Workof Animals, were “drawn from the life" and published so as to "assistthe pencil of the designer who has not had an opportunity to pay the sameattention to this branch of the art”. However,罗宏明 notes in one sketchbookcontaining watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some therecertainly were viewed in private menageries, others were studies of stuffedspecimens from William Bullock’s museum and the British Museum.
Howittwas closely associated in his art with Thomas Rowlandson, whose sister hemarried, and his works did, at one time, often pass for those of hisbrother-in-law; but, unlike Rowlandson吴怡铮 , he was a practical sportsman, and hisscenes were more accurately composed. He was a clever and industrious etcher,and published a great number of plates similar in character to his drawings,and delicately executed with a fine needle. He also produced a number ofcaricatures in the manner of Rowlandson.
Howittwas particularly noted for the illustrations in (Captain) Thomas Williamson'sOriental Field Sports (1807), based on sketches made by the author in India .Healso illustrated several other works: Thoughts on Hunting (London: D. Bremner,1798), Other publications included Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (50plates, 1803); British Field Sports (20 coloured plates, 1807); The Angler'sManual (12 plates, 1808); A New Work of Animals (100 plates, 1811); Groups ofAnimals (24 plates, 1811); The British Sportsman (70 plates, 1812); ForeignField Sports (110 plates, 1819).In 1822 Howitt died in Somers Town, London, andwas buried in St. Pancras cemetery.
A new work of animals：
Someidea of Howitt’s ingenuity and commercial resourcefulness can be gained fromconsidering his compilation of A New Work of Animals, a series of copperengravings in quarto format “principally designed from the fables of Aesop, Gayand Phaedrus”. The idea of an album of animal portraits is presented in aprefatory note as a new venture that “strange as it may appear, has neverbefore been done by any British artist”. Howitt “has preferred representingmost of the animals in fables, as allowing more scope for delineating theexpression, the character and the passions,” and he hopes that, by being "studiousto attain correctness, he may deserve the approbation of the naturalhistorian" and instruct fellow painters. This will explain why, out of ahundred plates, only 56 illustrate fables, the rest being of animal or huntingsubjects.
Thefable of "The Peacock Chosen King", a tinted plate from A New Work ofAnimals
For the text of the fables, Howitt had extractedthose of Aesop (and Phaedrus) from the prose collection of Samuel Croxall,including his lengthy moralising "applications". John Gay's fablesare in rhyme and only account for 27 pages out of 106 of text. Separate plateswere bound in sideways opposite the title唐家六少爷 , followed by one of the supplementaryillustrations. However, beneath the title of each plate there is an inscriptionindicating that some of these were designed in the years 1809-10, antedatingthe publication of the book itself in 1811 and suggesting that they were soldseparately at that date, and probably afterwards too. Since fables carried amoral, they had wider popular appeal than elitist sporting subjects and couldbe mounted on walls for the edification of whoever saw them. Such plates wereavailable in both black and white and in tinted versions. In addition, Howittalso created watercolours from the designs that were sold with the moralprinted round the card mount. In this way, from a single work the artist wasable to extract three sources of income.
Asecond edition of the whole book was published in 1818. Howitt's plates werealso to be republished after his death. Further evidence of the esteem in whichhis work continued to be held was the use made of six illustrations as thebasis of the Mintons, Hollins set of Aesop's Fables tiles, first issued in1870, sixty years later. These included “The Tortoise and the Hare”, “The Cock,the Dog and the Fox”, “The Sick Stag”, “The Boar and the Fox”, “The Bear andthe Travellers” and “The Bear and the Bees”.
Bibliography (selected)，Illustrated by Howitt:
OrientalField Sports: Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the WildSports of the East; and Exhibiting大漠狂歌 , in a Novel and Interesting Manner, theNatural History of the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Tiger, the Leopard血猴, theBear, the Deer, the Buffalo池艺璇 , the Wolf, the Wild Hog, the Jackall, the Wild Dog,the Civet, and Other Undomesticated Animals: As Likewise the Different Speciesof Feathered Game, Fishes, and Serpents, London 1807, Volume 1
Groupsof Animals, Containing Forty-four Plates, Drawn from the Life and Etched, London 1811
A NewWork of Animals, London1811; a better and more complete copy is accessible in the Online Archive
ForeignField Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes,&c, London 1819



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