The Island Sanctuary
1874
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1874
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Island Sanctuary is a 1874 by Joseph Wolf, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a rocky island in the middle of a body of water. A bird is flying in the foreground, and there's a nest on top of the rock with two birds inside. The background is a simple landscape with some hills or mountains. The drawing is done in a realistic style, with lots of detail in the rocks and the birds. The artist used a technique called cross-hatching to create texture and shading in the drawing. If you like this style of drawing, you might want to check out more works by the artist, Wolf, Joseph (R.I.).
A drawing titled *The Island Sanctuary* by Joseph Wolf depicts a scene likely intended for reproduction in D. G. Elliot’s 1874 book *The Life and Habits of Wild Animals*, appearing in reverse and with greater detail in that publication. Nineteen of Wolf’s drawings for the book were displayed at the Albany Gallery in 1968. The work was acquired from the Albany Gallery in March 1968 in exchange for a drawing by J. D. Harding.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Joseph Wolf never met an animal he didn’t want to draw. Even on his honeymoon, he lugged a sketchbook up Swiss peaks to catch the snow ptarmigan molting from winter white to summer brown. That’s how he ended up…
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