Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Zoographer

A painter (or describer) of animals.

"The earlier writers on art, who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books 'on zoographers,' 'on zoography'--this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if 'still life' did not merit the name."

William Taylor in The Monthly Magazine and British register XXXVII (1814).

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