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EDWIN WARD (1812-1878)
A VINTAGE CASED SCOWLING TIGER,
circa 1870, showing the head and claws of the tiger ready to pounce through the undergrowth, an E. Ward Wigmore Street, trade label, set in a timber-framed glazed case, measuring approx. 29in. x 29in. x 20in.
Other Notes: Edwin H. Ward set up a taxidermy shop in London in 1857 and received a royal warrant from Queen Victoria in 1870. Other distantly related Ward family members had taxidermy-related businesses as far away as New York and Australia. Edwin H. Ward had two sons, Edwin Jr. and James Rowland. Both were trained in their father's business and were successful on their own, mounting heads for the British royal family as well the Empress of Austria, among others. Edwin Jr. left the taxidermy business and eventually moved to the United States where he was involved in various ventures. Edwin Jr.'s son, Herbert Ward (1863–1919), served as a zoologist for Henry Morton Stanley during Stanley's 1887–1888 Emin Pasha Relief Expedition into the interior of then-unknown Africa.
Rowland Ward became the best-known taxidermist of the family. In his own book 'A Naturalist's Life Study' he said he left school at age fourteen to work in his father's shop. Rowland helped his father mount a hummingbird collection for John Gould. Early on, his focus was on sculpting and anatomically correct modelling. Rowland Ward was also a bronze sculptor of note.
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Estimate £3,000-5,000
(USD 3,887-6,478)
(EUR 3,329-5,548)
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