LEONARD ROBERT BRIGHTWELL (B.1889)
AN AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN
£263
Auction: 24 February 2006 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Etching, signed
Dimensions
34cm x 25cm and another one by the same hand, 'The Bears, or Stop, Look and Listen' (2)
Footnote
Note: A British etcher and illustrator of animal subjects, Brightwell became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 and a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922. During the first half of the twentieth century he was commissioned by these associations and other museums to make scientific drawings of various forms of life, including extinct animals.