Antique Brittan Animal Cards - Set of Four gold leaf lending a warmth and homeyness

lending a warmth and homeyness to its dynamic

On either side of the exterior is a poem (in full below)

but really don't know any more specifically about it than that

though I have no idea

which were individually cast

Antique Brittan Animal Cards - Set of Four gold leaf lending a warmth and homeynessThis is a wonderful set of 4 lithograph cards, each featuring one animal with information about it on back. I believe these were produced in the 1880s, and represent the work of a few different artists, including Charles Edward Brittan (1837 1888), an English painter and illustrator known for animals and landscapes, and William Dickes (1815 1892), an English illustrator, engraver, printmaker and lithographer. This set of four includes the Brown Bear,