travelingaccounts

Traveling accounts

This includes illustrations Keulemans was commissioned to create for a number of books written by travellers and field naturalists of his time.  Generally, these were books printed in octavo format (unless noted otherwise), and the authors of them wrote of their excursions in a more informal capacity.  The subject matter was varied and focused on the ethnological as well as the scientific aspects of the country visited, and the authors often sought the assistance of the more learned naturalists in preparing any reviews pertaining to zoology.  In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Central Asia and Africa were the frequent subjects of such accounts where Keulemans' work appeared, though reports on zoological expeditions to tropical Asia (Philippines, Borneo) also featured his work.

Plates from three of these accounts are included here:

**Blanford, Persia

**James, Unknown Horn of Africa

**Koslow/Bianchi, Mongoliia i Kam

**Blanford/Sharpe, Yarkand Mission

**Transactions of the Linnean Society

**Blanford, Abyssinia 

**Anderson, Yunnan Expeditions

**Henderson/Hume, Lahore to Yarkand

(In addition, there was also an account by John Whitehead, Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo (Gurney and Jackson, London).  It was published in 1893 (quarto), and included six plates.  These were presumably by the author, but they were largely based upon Keulemans' illustrations which had appeared in various serial publications.)

This exhibit of -- prints is featured on -- webpages, with a link provided below (see Blanford/Sharpe, Yarkand Mission) to access the second page.

**Blanford, Persia

Eastern Persia:  An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870--71--72.  Vol. II; The Zoology and Geology.  (Macmillan and Co., London.) 

W. T. Blanford published a two-volume account of his survey of Persia in 1876.  Only the second volume includes prints by Keulemans, eighteen in total.

 I  Erinaceus (Hemiechinus) macracanthus.  1. Adult  2. Young.

 II Vulpes persicus.

 III  Meles canescens.

 IV  Sciurus fulvus,

Myoxus (Dryomys) pictus.

 V  Gerbillus nanus,

Mus bactrianus,

Mus (Apodemus) erythronotus.

 VI  Nesokia huttoni,

Lagomys (Ochotona) rufescens.

 VII  Gerbillus (Meriones) persicus,

Dipus (Jaculus) loftusi.

 VIII  Lepus craspedotis. 

 IX  Picus (Picoides) sancti-johannis.

 X  Saxicola (Oenanthe) chrysopygia,

Daulias (Erithacus) hafizi.

 XI  Saxicola (Oenanthe) albonigra.

 XII  Sylvia rubescens.

 XIII  Crateropus (Turdoides) huttoni,

Scotocerca inquieta.

 XIV  Nectarinia (Arachnechthra) brevirostris.

 XV  Erythacus (Erithacus) hyrcanus,

Sitla (Sitta) rupicola.

 XVI  Parus phaeonotus,

Parus (Cyanistes) persicus.

 XVII  Erythrospiza (Rhodopechys) obsoleta.

 XVIII  Garrulus hyrcanus.

**James, Unknown Horn of Africa

The Unknown Horn of Africa.  An exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River.  With Additions by J. Godfrey Thrupp, M.R.C.S.

The map by W. D. James and Percy Aylmer.  The narrative illustrations by Rose Hake, and the drawings of the fauna by K. Keuleman, from specimens chiefly collected by E. Lort-Phillips.

F(rank) L(insly) James.  Published 1888; George Philip & Son (London).

This was the last account of the author's travels in east Africa and Somali-land.  Four of the plates in the book were ones which Keulemans had previously issued for publication in the journal The Ibis.  There was also an additional one from Henry Seebohm's The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies (1888); while Seebohm's work was printed in quarto, Keulemans prepared a separate, slightly altered illustration to accommodate the smaller, octavo format of Unknown Horn.  In certain printings, the plates were not colored, and thus these provide a good example of Keulemans' skillful rendering of fine details as a draughtsman.  Examples of hand-tinted illustrations are also available. 

From the title-page of this book (and the preface as well), it is obvious that F. L. James was not personally familiar with the artist, as the latter is erroneously cited as "K. Keuleman."  Two years after James wrote this he was killed in a hunting accident, by an elephant he and his friends had wounded.

The plate of Cursorius makes reference to E(thelbert) Lort-Phillips, who, as the subtitle of Unknown Horn indicates, provided many of the skins of the species described.  The wheatear figured in plate VII, Saxicola phillipsi, was named for him.  Other birds depicted were also named for the author and those who played a role in the publication of the account--G. Percy Aylmer, George Ernest Shelley (author ofA Handbook to the Birds of Egypt), and J. Godfrey Thrupp.

V  Dryoscopus (Laniarius) ruficeps,

Telephonus (Tchagra) jamesi.

  ((from The Ibis 1885, pl. X)) 

IX  Trachyphonus shelleyi.

((from The Ibis 1886, pl. V))

 VIII  Cursorius somalensis. 

Somali Courser.

(E. Lort-Phillips).

((from Seebohm, The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae))

 VII  Saxicola (Oenanthe) phillipsi. 

((from The Ibis 1885, pl. XII))

 VI  Argya (Turdoides) aylmeri,

Parus thruppi.

((from The Ibis 1885, pl. XI))

**Koslow/Bianchi,  Mongoliia i Kam

Piotr Kuz'mich Koslow; Dr. V(alentin) Bianchi (Aves).  Mongoliia i Kam : trudy Ekspeditsii Imperatorskago Russkago geograficheskago obshchestva, sovershennoi v. 

[Russian, Mongolia and Kham : achievements of the geographical association expeditions in Imperial Russia.  An additional subtitle is Report on Koslov's expedition from 1899 to 1901, in which he travelled through the Altai Mountains and Gobi desert to reach Tibet and search for the source of the Yellow River.]

Mongoliia i Kam was the report of Koslow's travels from 1899--1901, and it was published as a folio edition in St. Petersburg (K. Russ. Geogr. Gesellsch.).  It was not translated from its original Russian.  Four plates by Keulemans appeared in Dr. Bianchi's report, Aves, from volume 5 (1907).  The plates do not specifically name figured specimens; scientific names refer to them within the text, in Roman characters. 

I  [Kozlowia (Carpodacus) roborowskii,

Emberiza kozlowi.]

II  [Loxia himalayana,

Certhia khamensis,

Cinclus przewalskii.]

III  [Kaznakowia (Babax) kozlowi,

Accipiter nisus ladygini,

Accentor (Prunella) collaris tibetanus.]

IV  [Tetraogallus kozlowi,

Tetraogallus himalayensis grombczewskii.]

Additional pictures are available through this link--

http://sites.google.com/site/mmslouisb/travelingaccounts(continued)