Portrait of Joesph Leidy, Naturalist

 

Ludwig (Louis) E. Faber

  1855 - 1913

c. 1891  

etching 

14 1/4 x 12 1/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

etched remarked of books and death mask, lower left; engraved: "Etched by L. E. Faber", lower left 

 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

16848 

$200.00 

Joseph Leidy is best known for his study of the dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, which greatly advanced knowledge of these prehistoric giants and placed the United States at the scientific forefront of vertebrate paleontology. Leidy studied other fossil animals, including fishes and reptiles, but most of Leidy's paleontological work was on prehistoric mammals, especially those from the American West.