Antique Fish Print of Whiting, Hake and Workers gutting and salting fish

1832 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Fish Print of Whiting, Hake and Workers gutting and salting fish

Name: Antique Fish Print of Whiting, Hake and Workers gutting and salting fish
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13292-1-40
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1832
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 11 × 18 cm (4.3 × 7.1 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, some wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Reference: BG-13292-1-40

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.

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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

Whiting and hake with a scene of fish being cured, an original antique engraving with hand color from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Der Fische erster Theil, volume 5, published in 1832. The plate is numbered at the upper right and the fish are labeled 92 and 93.

At the bottom are two fish drawn in profile: the whiting, Merlangius merlangus (92), and the hake, Merluccius merluccius (93), in silvery gray and brown. Above them is a lively scene of workers gutting and salting fish in a shed on a dam above a river in North America. Men in coats and tricorn hats stand at wooden troughs and barrels, split and lay out the catch, while others carry loads along a wooden pier, and a cannon-like piece stands on a cart at the quay. A cluster of buildings and a bare tree complete the shore.

Wilhelm (1758 to 1811) was a Protestant pastor and natural history writer, the son of Christian Art Wilhelm, an art dealer and publisher in Augsburg. These engravings come from the fish section of his twenty-five volume work on natural history, published from 1777 into the 1800s with 1,469 illustrations by the engravers of Augsburg's famous print trade, once known as the European Image Factory.

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