
Luke Batterham
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The work was issued as a companion volume to Gray's earlier work on the menagerie, published in 1846 [see previous lot]. It is devoted to Antelope and Deer, Llamas and their relatives, Zebras, Quaggas and various horse family half-breeds. The plates are all by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), an artist and sculptor who specialised in natural history subjects, contributing 49 plates to Charles Darwin's The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, and later modelling life-sized images of dinosaurs for exhibition at Crystal Palace, and Central Park in New York. The plates are accompanied by Lord Derby's notes on their habits, and by a description of the specimens of the various genera.