Joseph Smit (18 July 1836 – 4 November 1929) was a Dutch zoological
illustrator.[1][2]
Background
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[4]Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches, as well as
Daniel Giraud Elliot's monographs on the
Phasianidae and
Paradisaeidae. Beginning in the 1870s, he worked on the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum (1874–1898, edited by
Richard Bowdler Sharpe), and later on
Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands.
^Wheye, Darryl; Kennedy, Donald (2008). Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens. Yale University Press. p. 137.
^"Joseph Smit". Cornell University. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^Campbell, Bruce; Lack, Elizabeth (1985). A Dictionary of Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. p. 301.
^"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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