[f. Gr. ζῴον animal + -γράφος depicting, describing; see -GRAPHER.]
1. One who describes animals; a descriptive zoologist.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. i. 180. One kinde of Locust … by Zoographers called mantis.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 104. The Zoographer Gesner.
1688. Boyle, Final Causes, ii. 61. Zoographers observe, That the Camelion has a very uncommon structure of his visive Organs.
1711. Brit. Apollo, IV. No. 17. 1/2. Others [sc. beasts having only one horn] are mentioned by Zoographers.
2. A painter or depicter of animals; a painter or artist in general.
(In the latter use repr. Gr. ζωγράφος (see ZOOGRAPH): not an Eng. sense.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Zoographer … a Painter or one that draws the pictures of beasts. [Citing Sir T. Browne: see 1646 in 1.]
1814. Sporting Mag., XLIV. 66. This very clever artist and zoographer.
1814. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 406. The earlier writers on art,… who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books on zoographers, on zoography—this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if still life did not merit the name.
