[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]

Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, artist · 1913 · 35 pictures

A pencil sketchbook kept by the British hunter and naturalist Abel Chapman, drawn in Sudan and published in 1913 as a record of his travels and wildlife observations. The pages are working studies of birds and animals, with handwritten notes on species, dates and places. A designer could take loose, quick gestural linework from them, showing how a few strokes can capture a bird's posture in flight, wading or resting.

Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 -- Travel -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan -- Pictorial works · Animals -- Sudan -- Pictorial works · Birds -- Sudan -- Pictorial works · Sudan -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works

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