Antique Chromolithograph Print of Mallard Duck, 1898, Mounted

1898 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Chromolithograph Print of Mallard Duck, 1898, Mounted

Name: Antique Chromolithograph Print of Mallard Duck, 1898, Mounted
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11373-6-2
Price: 90 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1898
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 32 × 24.5 cm (12.6 × 9.6 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11373-6-2

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

Mallard Duck, a chromolithograph from the natural history set Animate Creation, published in 1898 by Selmar Hess in New York. The plate title is lettered "Mallard Duck" beneath the image, with the publisher's imprint in the lower margin.

A drake stands on a mat of dry reeds at the water's edge, in full plumage with a glossy green head, a white collar, a chestnut breast and a gray body, a hen crouching beside him in the foreground. Tall reeds fill the background and a line of ducks flies across the pale sky above the marsh, with a few more swimming in the channel behind. The color is built up in the muted, naturalistic tones of late-century chromolithography.

The mallard breeds across the Northern Hemisphere, in North America as well as Europe and Asia. Louis Prang (1824 to 1909) was a leading American color printer, and his firm printed the plates of Animate Creation.

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