Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914

260 Pages·2018·60.07 MB·English

by  J Keri Cronin

ART FOR
Animals
VISUAL CULTURE
AND
ANIMAL ADVOCACY,
1870–1914
J. KERI CRONIN
ART FOR ANIMALS
ANIMALIBUS
VOL. 12
   
Nigel Rothfels, General Editor
Advisory Board:
Steve Baker (University of Central Lancashire)
Susan McHugh (University of New England)
Garry Marvin (Roehampton University)
Kari Weil (Wesleyan University)
Books in the Animalibus series share a fascination with the status and the role of animals in human life.
Crossing the humanities and the social sciences to include work in history, anthropology, social and cultural
geography, environmental studies, and literary and art criticism, these books ask what thinking about
nonhuman animals can teach us about human cultures, about what it means to be human, and about how
that meaning might shift across times and places.
Other titles in the series:
Rachel Poliquin, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing
Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist, eds., Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies
in Historical Perspective
Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd, eds., Animals on Display: The Creaturely
in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History
Ann- Janine Morey, Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs
Mary Sanders Pollock, Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narratives Past and Future
Ingrid H. Tague, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth- Century Britain
Dick Blau and Nigel Rothfels, Elephant House
Marcus Baynes- Rock, Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar
Monica Mattfeld, Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth- Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Heather Swan, Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field
Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld, eds., Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater
ART FOR
ANIMALS
Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy,
1870–1914
J. KERI CRONIN
The Pennsylvania State University Press
University Park, Pennsylvania
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Cronin, J. Keri (Jennifer Keri), 1973– author.
Title: Art for animals : visual culture and animal advocacy,
1870–1914 / J. Keri Cronin.
Other titles: Animalibus.
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] |
Series: Animalibus: of animals and cultures | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Summary: “Explores the ways in which visual imagery
was used for animal advocacy campaigns in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the ways
in which these images were created, circulated, and
consumed in a wide range of cultural contexts”—Provided
by publisher.
Identifiers: lccn 2017044690 | isbn 9780271080093 (cloth :
alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Animal welfare—History—19th century. |
Animal welfare—History—20th century. | Visual
communication—History—19th century. | Visual
communication—History—20th century. | Animals in
art.
Classification: lcc hv4705 .c76 2018 | ddc 179 /
.309034—dc23
lc record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2017044690
Copyright © 2018 J. Keri Cronin
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press,
University Park, PA 16802–1003
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Library Material, ansi z39.48–1992.
For those we choose not to see.

CONTENTS
ix
List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments
1
Introduction
27
1 Educate Them Artistically
70
2 Bearing Witness
100
3 Imaginative Leaps
130
4 In the Public Eye
167
5 Advocacy at Home
190
Conclusion: What Might Be
197
Notes
217
Bibliography
243
Index

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Jo- Anne McArthur / We Animals, Pig on Transport Truck, Toronto, Ontario 2
2. Cover of Light in Dark Places 4
3. John Singer Sargent, The Misses Hunter 11
4. George Cruikshank, The Knackers Yard, or The Horses Last Home! 13
5. Sir Francis Burdett and His Little Girl 28
6. Sir Edwin Landseer, The Old Shepherd’s Chief Mourner 34
7. Sir Edwin Landseer, A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society 35
8. Samuel Cousins, print of Sir Edwin Landseer’s Saved! 35
9. Marianne Stokes, A Parting 41
10. Thomas Sidney Cooper, The Old Smithfield Market 44
11. A Night View of Smithfield Market 46
12. Charles John Tomkins, print of John McLure Hamilton’s Vivisection—
The Last Appeal 48
13. Kindness to Sheep on a Cattle- Train 51
14. William Henry Simons, print of Sir Edwin Landseer’s The Sick Monkey 57
15. Robert Morley, The Shadow of the Knife 64
16. Edward G. Fairholme, Landing Horses at Antwerp 72
17. H. W. Koekkoek, The Incoming Ship of Death 74
18. Kurt Peiser, Suffering’s End (The Death of the Old White Horse) 76
19. Reenactment of the Brown Dog Experiment 86
20. A. H. E. Mattingley, Starveling Egrets (Parents Shot for Their Plumes) 88
21. A. H. E. Mattingley, The Dying Nestlings (Parents Shot for Their Plumes) 89
22. MSPCA / Francis H. Rowley, For the Sake of a Veal Cutlet 93
23. W. W. Keen, Mouth gag as used in operations about the mouth 96
24. George Frederic Watts, A Dedication 101
25. W. L. Duntley, Why Not? 111
26. Robert Morley, Christ in the Laboratory 113
27. Is Turn About Fair- Play? 114
28. Birds Robbing Child’s Nests 115
29. W. T. Smedley, Poor Little Doggie 118