A prodigiously talented pair of English twins, the Detmold brothers shared an intense passion for drawing and observing animals. As young children, they began sketching at the Zoological Gardens in London, displayed their work at the Royal Academy by the time they were 13, and published their first book of illustrations soon after. The British art world recognized their unique gift immediately and saw them as a single creative soul residing in two bodies. Their exquisite etchings, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, rendered in the Japanese style, are remarkable for their fine detail and vivid coloration.
This glorious collection of illustrations ranges from the Detmolds' 1899 debut,
Pictures from Birdland, to a 1925 edition of the exotic
Arabian Nights. Other selections include curious creatures great and small from
Aesop's Fables and
Fabre's Book of Insects. You'll encounter a meticulously rendered menagerie that includes a slithering python and fierce tiger from
The Jungle Book, a vain jackdaw with beautiful plumage, a glistening lizard and butterfly in a garden, a lace-winged praying mantis, and so much more. Collectors of fine art and beautiful books, as well as animal lovers, will treasure this distinctive art from the Golden Age of book illustration.
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From Pictures from Birdland
The Crested Crane
The Toucan
The Gallinule
The Penguin
The Guan
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
The Osprey
The Hummingbird
The Cormorant
The Oriole
The Pheasant
The Hang Nest
The Bateleur Eagle
The Owl
From The Book of Baby Pets
The Green Tree Frog
Grey Squirrel
Lamb
Guinea Pig
Goldfish
Kitten
Lizard
The "Cordon Bleu"
Tortoise
Chicks
Kid
From The Jungle Book
The "Council Rock"
"Akela" the Lone Wolf
Baloo in the Forest
The "Cold Lairs"
The Monkey Fight
"Kaa" the Python
Shere Khan in the Jungle
The Return of the Buffalo Herd
Rikki-tikki-tavi and Nag
Elephant-Dance
From The Fables of Aesop
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Oxen and the Axle-trees
The Monkeys and their Mother
The Vain Jackdaw
The Grasshopper and the Owl
The Lion and the Three Bulls
The Eagle and the Beetle
The Goat and the Ass
The Fox and the Crane
The Owl and the Birds
The She-Goats and their Beards
The Eagle and his Captor
From The Book of Baby Beasts
The Rat
The Hippopotamus
The Kangaroo
From Birds and Beasts
The Captive Goldfinch
Strange Adventures of a Little White Rabbit
Misadventures of an Owl
From The Book of Baby Birds
The Long-Tailed Tit
The Magpie
The Willow Warbler
The Blue Tit
The Yellow-Hammer
The Gannet
From Hours of Gladness
Catasetum and Cypripediums
Orchis Latifolia
Coryanthes Maculata
Kingcups
From Birds in Town and Village
Goldfinch and Blue Tit, "The desire for the companionship of birds."
Nightingale, ". . . the medicine of its pure, fresh melody."
Jay, ". . . inquisitve, perplexed, suspicious, enraged by turns."
Wren, ". . . mysterious talk in the leaves."
Heron. ". . . the streams are fished by herons."
From Fabre's Book of Insects
The Sacred Beetle.
The Cicada.
The White-Faced Decticus.
Common Wasps.
The Field Cricket.
Italian Locusts.
The Anthrax Fly.
From Our Little Neighbours
The Superior Cat
White-tails
The Independent Goat
Ducks' Weather
Mice, Plain and Fancy
From Rainbow Houses
The Spider and the Wasp
"Darling Sugar-Bird, Green and Red"
"Peep, Little Lizard, Through the Grass"
The Praying Mantis
From The Arabian Nights
The next day he sat me behind him on an elephant
The rukh, which fed its young on elephants
The wolf changed into a cock, which began picking up the grains
