Antique Bird Print of Titmouses by American Lithographer Prang, 1898

1898 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Bird Print of Titmouses by American Lithographer Prang, 1898

Name: Antique Bird Print of Titmouses by American Lithographer Prang, 1898
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11373-6-10
Price: 100 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1898
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 32 × 24.5 cm (12.6 × 9.6 in)
Condition: Good
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11373-6-10

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Titmice, an original chromolithograph from the natural history set Animate Creation, published in New York by Selmar Hess in 1898. The sheet is printed in color from stone, with the plate title "Titmice" set below the image, the publisher's line "Selmar Hess, Publisher, N.Y." beneath the picture, and the printer's credit to L. Prang and Co. at the lower left.

Five small birds are gathered in a wooded setting, perched and clinging to the branches of a tree hung with trailing moss. A black-capped, yellow-breasted bird with white cheeks sits at the top, a blue-capped bird hangs head down beneath it, and others with brown backs and crests perch lower, one pecking at a mossy limb beside a cut stump. The background is washed in soft warm greens and a pale pink sky.

Louis Prang, a German-born printer in Boston, was the most important American color printer of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of the chromolithograph in the United States. This plate is an American-printed natural history illustration, and the birds shown look like Old World tits.

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