Joseph Smit 2343259 225847072 2008-07-15T17:56:29Z 129.67.71.142 [[Image:Smit.Lepus crawshayi.jpg|thumb|A [[rabbit]] illustration drawn by Joseph Smit.]] '''Joseph Smit''' ([[1836]] - [[1929]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] zoological [[illustrator]]. Smit was born in [[Lisse]]. He received his first commission from [[Hermann Schlegel]] at the Leiden Museum to work on the lithographs for a book on the birds of the Dutch East Indies. In 1866 he was invited to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] by [[Philip Sclater]] to do the lithography for Sclater's ''Exotic Ornithology''. He also did the lithography for [[Joseph Wolf]]'s ''Zoological Sketches'', as well as [[Daniel Giraud Elliot]]'s monographs on the Phasianeidae and Paradiseida. Beginning in the 1870s, he worked on the ''Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum'' (1874-1898, edited by [[Richard Bowdler Sharpe]]), and later on [[Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford|Lord Lilford]]'s ''Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands''. His son Pierre Jacques Smit (1863-1960) was also a zoological illustrator. ==See also== * [[List of wildlife artists]] {{Commons|Joseph Smit}} {{BD|1836|1929|Smit, Joseph}} [[Category:Bird artists]] [[Category:Dutch illustrators]] [[Category:People from South Holland]] [[eo:Joseph Smit]] [[fr:Joseph Smit]]