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Leonard Brightwell - AN AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN cricket Dry Point Etching
1929038817United Kingdom 1929. Drawing. Illus. by Leonard Brightwell. Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. A group of eleven kanagroos gathered and with a witty title "An Australian Eleven" alluding to a cricket XI. Etching dry point on laid paper signed and titled by the artist this one completed around 1929. Published in London by the British company "James Connell & Sons". Plate 345mm x 250mm. Paper unmarked fine with a new conservation grade acid free fine mount. Black stained wooden frame in fine condition. Framed dimension 580mm x 430mm. A characterful and humorous work. Provenance - plate to the back of James Connell & Sons in Glasgow. James Connell was well known for dealing in prints along with publishing both in Glasgow and London. Biography - Leonard Robert Brightwell London Born 1889 - 1962 An outstanding British etcher illustrator and author of animal subjects Leonard Robert Brightwell studied at the Lambeth School of Art London. Countless visits to the Zoological Gardens however provided his most important artistic education. 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. Brightwell's first illustrated book A British Dog in France was published in 1913. During the First World War 1914-1918 he served in the British Army. After 1920 Brightwell established himself as a major illustrator and as an author. Books written and illustrated by him include A Cartoonist among Animals 1921 On the Seashore 1934 The Zoo You Knew 1936 Neptune's Garden 1937 The Dawn of Life 1938 The Garden Naturalist 1941 The Zoo Story 1952 and Down to the Sea 1954.His cartoons often appeared in the Punch Magazine. . unknown
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