The artistic anatomy of cattle and sheep / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins ; with twenty illustrations drawn on wood by the author, and engraved by H. Orrin Smith.

  • Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1894.
Date:
[1868?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The artistic anatomy of cattle and sheep / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins ; with twenty illustrations drawn on wood by the author, and engraved by H. Orrin Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    17/54
    the cow ancl the bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox,” must select hornless cattle as models for the members of that peaceful combination, though at the cost of picturesque expression. Cattle are somewhat aquatic in their habits, and often voluntarily frequent water-meadows in prefer- ence to hill sides. It is desirable that the artist should be observant of such facts, as they will lead him to appreciate the structure of those animals he may introduce, and induce him to give special attention to the drawing of the limbs, and particularly the feet. Not only may this be said of cattle but of every other animal that he may desire to represent. He will find the feet of all animals, though consisting of a similar ar- rangement of bones, so modified as to be perfectly adapt- ed to all the requirements (however dissimilar) of each animal’s natural mode of life. Cattle seek, and evidently enjoy, wet ground and watery plains by the side of rivers, where the out-spreading of the di- vided hoofs gives the creature an increased base of support, and at the same time affords a facility for extricating the feet from the hole in the soft ground into which the weight of the animal might have pressed the foot. (See description of Feet, Plate III.) The small Scotch cattle, commonly called “ kyloes,” are generally to be found on the boggy ground which abounds in the part of Scotland they inhabit, and their name “ kyloe,” is nearly the same word as that