Henry Constantine Richter

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Henry Constantine Richter (* 1821 in Brompton ; † March 16, 1902 ) was a British animal illustrator who worked closely with John Gould .

Pouchwolf from The Mammals of Australia by John Gould , 1845

Life

Richter was the son of Henry James and Charlotte Sophia Richter. Henry James Richter was a noted history painter and from 1811 to 1812 the President of the Associated Artists in Watercolors . He died in 1857. Henry Constantine Richter's career as a draftsman began in the 1840s with illustrating books and magazines. His first bird tables are published in the first and third volumes of George Robert Gray 's Genera of Birds . Other ornithologists also became aware of Richter through these lithographs . After Elizabeth Gould's death , Richter was contacted by John Gould, who hired him as an illustrator for his work The Birds of Australia . Richter used the bellows and sketches by Elizabeth and John Gould as a template to complete the lithographs. This work took seven years. Between 1844 and 1850 he helped John Gould create 32 drawings and lithographs for a work on the American tooth quail . He also illustrated some editions of the journals of the Zoological Society of London . In 1851 John Gould participated in the Great Exhibition in London with an amazing display of stuffed hummingbirds . It formed the basis for the work Monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds , for which Gould and Richter made 360 ​​drawings and lithographs. This work was completed in 1861 and published in five volumes. For John Gould's Birds of Great Britain , Richter worked with Joseph Wolf . Of the 367 drawings in this book, 300 were by Richter. Richter's last work for John Gould was a book on Asiatic avifauna, which other ornithologists completed in 1883 after Gould's death. Richter made around 500 panels for the work. In 1878 and 1879 he illustrated Richard Owen's work Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds .

Henry Constantine Richter produced a total of more than 1,600 lithographs.

Works (selection)

  • George Robert Gray: Genera of Birds (Volumes 1 and 3) 1844-1849
  • John Gould: Birds of Australia 1840-1848 and 1851-1869
  • John Gould: Monograph of the Odontophorinae or partridges of America , 1844-1850
  • John Gould: Monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds , 1849-1861
  • John Gould: A monograph of the Ramphastidae or family of toucans : Supplement, 1855
  • John Gould: A monograph of the Trogonidae or family of trogons , 2nd edition, 1858-1875
  • John Gould: The Birds of Asia (7 volumes with Joseph Wolf), 1850–1883
  • John Gould: The Birds of Great Britain (5 volumes with Joseph Wolf), 1862–1873
  • Richard Owen: Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds , 1878-1879
  • John Gould: A monograph of the Pittidae (Ed .: Richard Bowdler Sharpe), 1880

literature

  • Christine E. Jackson : HC Richter - John Gould's unknown bird artist In: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, November 1978, Vol. 9, No. 1: pp. 10-14

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personal data
SURNAME Judge, Henry Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British animal illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Brompton
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1902