J.W. Ludlow was an ornithological artist who specialized in domesticated birds. He illustrated several books published by Cassell and others between 1867 and 1886 on poultry, pigeons, as well as canaries and other cage birds. His poultry illustrations are considered classics and are widely reproduced in posters today.<\/p>\n
Lewis Wright was a Victorian-era author, editor and poultry, pigeon and animal expert. He played a major part in documenting old and rare breeds of poultry and recording their histories. Wright was the subject of the 2001 book Lewis Wright and His Poultry<\/strong> by Joseph Batty (London: Northbrook Publishing).<\/p>\n Condition: Generally very good, with the usual overall toning, wear, soft creases. Some minor discoloration in margins, can be matted out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J.W. Ludlow (after) Examples of prints from this series shown left.\u00a0 Please inquire as to our current selection.<\/p>\n Various prints from a renowned comprehensive series of 50 chromolithographs of prize British roosters and hens, and other fowl, illustrated by J. W. Ludlow. Each bird is sensitively portrayed in a natural farm or henhouse setting, imbued with its own personality and temperament that seems to correspond to its appearance. Some prints show a single bird, others show two, either the more showy males, or a pair of male and female. The titles of the prints specify name of breed and prizes. Some also specify owner or name of the bird. For example, Mr. R.B. Wood\u2019s pair of Creve-Coeurs won \u201c1st prizes at Wolverhampton Birmingham (Summer Show) Spalding & Chesterfield, 1872,\u201d and Mr. Tomlinson\u2019s Buff Cochcin Cock \u2018Sampson\u2019 was \u201cwinner of the Birmingham Cup in 1860 and 1861.\u201d Cassell and Company published numerous other natural history works in the period including ones illustrating canaries and cage birds, pigeons, dogs, and horses.<\/p>\n Product Description Continues Below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7831,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[976,6790],"product_tag":[42,2899,479,124,5194,4993,4608,1571,5202,5203,488,5200,5192,3375,5217,5201,5197,5198,1673,5195,5204,5199,5196,5193],"class_list":{"0":"post-7457","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-bird-ornithology-prints","7":"product_cat-garden-room","8":"product_tag-19th-century","9":"product_tag-birds","10":"product_tag-book","11":"product_tag-british","12":"product_tag-brooks","13":"product_tag-cassell","14":"product_tag-chicken","15":"product_tag-chromolithograph","16":"product_tag-galpin","17":"product_tag-hen","18":"product_tag-illustrated","19":"product_tag-judging","20":"product_tag-ludlow","21":"product_tag-ornithological","22":"product_tag-ornithology","23":"product_tag-petter","24":"product_tag-poultry","25":"product_tag-practical","26":"product_tag-print","27":"product_tag-prize","28":"product_tag-rooster","29":"product_tag-schedules","30":"product_tag-winning","31":"product_tag-wright","32":"post","33":"post-with-thumbnail","34":"post-with-thumbnail-large","36":"first","37":"instock","38":"purchasable","39":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33553,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7457\/revisions\/33553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLewis Wright (1838-1905) (editor)
\nVincent Day Brooks (printers)
\nPrize Winning Poultry<\/strong>
\nfrom The Illustrated Book of Poultry<\/strong>, with Practical Schedules for Judging, Constructed from Actual Analysis of the Best Modern Decisions<\/em><\/strong>
\nCassell, Petter, & Galpin, London, Paris and New York: 1880
\nChromolithographs
\n10 1\/2 x 8 inches print
\n$250 each<\/p>\n