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Old Modern Game Prints


A superb oil painting only discovered in 2011 by John Crossland, painted in 1866. Submitted by his grandson, Roy Crosland, see new article on front page of website. This records the original making of the Piles and lets us know much about those times from 1850 to 1912.

A really superb early English Oil Painting kindly sent in by Val Kelly from Australia. It would be interesting to know the artist as it is not in the style of Ludlow, Whippel or Lydon, the well known artist of that era. Any ideas ?

This is the earliest I can find, drawn by Harrison Weir in 1872 and referred to as Exhibition Modern Game in their transition period.

Below 3 more of the time by Harrison Weir from Tegetmeier's Poulty Book 1867


Weir himself

A set of 8 Ludlow Prints from the earliest Cassell's Poultry Book

These prints are Chromolithographs, a process where different stone blocks were used to print each colour.

Cassells Poultry book was illustrated by Ludlow. These prints are really beautifully made Chromolithographs from a later edition of this Cassells Book.

All the birds are named together with the honours they achieved.

The dates of the poultry on the prints is 1885 and 1886. This edition book was published about 1900.

<A F Lydon

1898

a 1918 sketch thought to be German

Ernest Whippel.

About 1900

Above, an 1893 print by Ludlow from The Feathered World

Below, two prints from the USA. The American Poultry Journal publication


	A J Compton of Sydney, NSW did these fine illustrations in 1897

About 1900

<Louis Graham

A F Lydon>

both for Feathered World



	Ludlow from feathered world on the left and the four above by Ludlow again but from Lewis Wright's Poultry Book about 1910




	These 6 delightful German Prints are of unknown origin, they are marked Zuchter on the bottom and one would guess their age as about 1910 This illustration to the left was drawn from life by A J Simpson at at the Crystal Palace show 1910. The bird belonged to W Coutts and was in pen no. 4060

These four delightful prints are by Edwin Megargee, USA, 1911

from: "Standard Bred Poultry Vols 1 & 2, an American ICS reference work"

These six excellent prints painted in1913 by Kurt Zander have been kindly submitted by Anders Clarhäll from Stockholm, Sweden. The Birchens are large fowl and the Pile and Duckwings are bantams. The Publication is: Rassegeflügel : eine Sammlung von Standardbildern nach Aquarellen / von Kurt Zander. - Berlin : Pfenningstorff, [1913].